Our neighbor Bill Cook hasn't been around much this spring, most recently he and Anne have been Up North taking care of some interests there. When Bill re-emerged, he was sporting a fine, full beard, giving him the robust Ernest Hemingway image that will add some class to the neighborhood. His neighbor, John Gerken, greeted the happy wanderer this morning and traded a few stories on the front lawn -- before the monsoon drove everyone indoors.
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"And then I wrote a good one about
this old man fishing . . ." |
While on the topic of Hemingway, Bill told about the bygone necessity of manually starting an airplane by standing in front of the propeller, grasping it firmly and violently yanking the engine to life. This dangerous procedure, Bill says, came to be known in honor of Ernest Hemingway, as "A Farewell to Arms."
