In sy autobiografiese vertellings van Parys in die 1920's in A Moveable Feast, is Hemingway satiries en soms uitdagend teenoor die bekendes wat hy ontmoet het. Sy vriendskap met die welbekende Gertrude Stein en F. Scott Fitzgerald was die bron van vele inspirasie en frustrasie.
Selfs met sy liefde vir drank en dobbel en sy kort humeur dink ek Hem, soos sy vriende hom genoem het, was 'n merkwaardige mens en 'n vriend duisend.
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
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