Reflections of a working writer and reader
The blank page is always pure potential, for everyone, me included. Every time you begin, it's just as frightening, and just as much of a risk. The magic can always fail, and the eggs that come out of the hat may end up on the floor. Margaret Atwood
With thanks and acknowledgements to Hemingway’s Paris and Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog
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Plus fours – surely due for a revival.
There’s something very poignant about old photographs – small parcels of time, captured and frozen, leaving you wondering what had gone before, and what happened next?
What was each of them thinking behind the posed smile and the raised glass? And those in the background, making one-off random appearances in history’s scrapbook, nameless and unremembered. What became of them after going home and saying, “I saw Ernest Hemingway tonight”?
Fascinating. Is Hemingway wearing Chico Marx’s hat or did Chico nick it from Hemingway? I think we should be told.