Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A Moveable Feast


I am reading A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and I just love it.  I have a total fascination with the Lost Generation, the artists of all types who lived in Paris during the 1920's.  This book contains his memoirs of his life in Paris.  I absolutely love it.  It sort of reminds me of Jack Kerouac's On the Road in that the writing seems really simple and is just about things that he sees and people he interacts with and stuff he does and while that could get boring, it just doesn't.  It makes me wish that I was alive during the 1920's (fyi, my FAVORITE era) and could have been one of those people sitting in sidewalk cafe's with a glass of wine, writing away or finding inspiration for my next painting.

"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

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