http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-lost-generation-happy-days/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:56:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-lost-generation-happy-days/#comment-109912 Dick Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:52:49 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1273#comment-109912 Fascinating. Is Hemingway wearing Chico Marx's hat or did Chico nick it from Hemingway? I think we should be told. Fascinating. Is Hemingway wearing Chico Marx’s hat or did Chico nick it from Hemingway? I think we should be told.

]]> http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-lost-generation-happy-days/#comment-109896 Paul Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:14:40 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1273#comment-109896 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"? 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”?

]]> http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/the-lost-generation-happy-days/#comment-109881 Dick Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:50:43 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=1273#comment-109881 Plus fours - surely due for a revival. Plus fours - surely due for a revival.

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