Moveable Feast
a moveable feast
by
earnest hemingway
courtesy: shahid riaz islamabad – pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com 2
contents preface 1
a good cafe on the place st-michel
2
miss stein instructs
3
'une generation perdue"
4
shakespeare and company
5
people of the seine
6
a false spring
7
the end of an avocation
8
hunger was good discipline
9
ford madox ford and the devil's disciple
10
birth of a new school
11
with pascin at the dome
12
ezra pound and his bel esprit
13
a strange enough ending
14
the man who was marked for death
15
evan shipman at the lilas
16
an agent of evil
17
scott fitzgerald
18
hawks do not share
19
a matter of measurements
20
there is never any end to paris
if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a moveable feast.
—ernest hemingway to a friend, 1950
3
preface for reasons sufficient to the writer, many places, people, observations and impressions have been left out of this book. some were secrets and some were known by everyone and everyone has written about them and will doubtless write more. there is no mention of the stade anastasie where the boxers served as waiters at the tables set out under the trees and the ring was in the garden. nor of training with larry gains, nor the great twenty-round fights at the cirque d'hiver. nor of such good friends as charlie sweeny, bill bird and mike strater, nor of andre masson and miro. there is no mention of our voyages to the black forest or of our one-day explorations of the forests that we loved around paris. it would be fine if all these were in this book but we will have to do without them for now. if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. but there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has
by
earnest hemingway
courtesy: shahid riaz islamabad – pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com 2
contents preface 1
a good cafe on the place st-michel
2
miss stein instructs
3
'une generation perdue"
4
shakespeare and company
5
people of the seine
6
a false spring
7
the end of an avocation
8
hunger was good discipline
9
ford madox ford and the devil's disciple
10
birth of a new school
11
with pascin at the dome
12
ezra pound and his bel esprit
13
a strange enough ending
14
the man who was marked for death
15
evan shipman at the lilas
16
an agent of evil
17
scott fitzgerald
18
hawks do not share
19
a matter of measurements
20
there is never any end to paris
if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a moveable feast.
—ernest hemingway to a friend, 1950
3
preface for reasons sufficient to the writer, many places, people, observations and impressions have been left out of this book. some were secrets and some were known by everyone and everyone has written about them and will doubtless write more. there is no mention of the stade anastasie where the boxers served as waiters at the tables set out under the trees and the ring was in the garden. nor of training with larry gains, nor the great twenty-round fights at the cirque d'hiver. nor of such good friends as charlie sweeny, bill bird and mike strater, nor of andre masson and miro. there is no mention of our voyages to the black forest or of our one-day explorations of the forests that we loved around paris. it would be fine if all these were in this book but we will have to do without them for now. if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. but there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has