“ In 1956, Ernest and I were having lunch at the Ritz in Paris with Charles Ritz, the hotel’s chairman, when Charley asked if Ernest was aware that a trunk of his was in the basement storage room, left there in 1930. Ernest did not remember storing the trunk but he did recall that in the 1920s Louis Vuitton had made a special trunk for him. Ernest had wondered what had become of it.
— A. E. Hotchner “Don’t Touch ‘A Moveable Feast’”. A Moveable Feast is one of my favorites of Hemingway’s, and possibly the best thing I read (in English) while I was living in Germany. Reading it, combined with learning about the art scene in of that time and place, made me fascinated with the Paris of the 20’s. For a long time, I was certain it was the first era I would have visited in a time machine if I had one at my disposal.
And so it’s sad that some seemingly small-minded person feels the need to alter it to better bolster the character of himself and his immediate family.
And so it’s sad that some seemingly small-minded person feels the need to alter it to better bolster the character of himself and his immediate family.
