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The Lost Generation - Happy Days

With thanks and acknowledgements to Hemingway’s Paris and Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog

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3 responses to “The Lost Generation - Happy Days”

  1. § Dick on August 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Plus fours - surely due for a revival.

  2. § Paul on August 10th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    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”?

  3. § Dick on August 18th, 2008 at 6:52 am

    Fascinating. Is Hemingway wearing Chico Marx’s hat or did Chico nick it from Hemingway? I think we should be told.

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