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S.C. Exhibit highlights Hemingway prose
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Original article at http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/dec/18/exhibit-highlights-hemingway-prose/
Exhibit highlights Hemingway prose
BY BRIAN HICKS
Sunday, December 18, 2011
In the spring of 1935, Ernest Hemingway was lamenting the placement of his home on a list of Key West tourist attractions.
His regular Esquire magazine column was devoted to his tongue-in-cheek protest that he had no desire to compete with the Turtle Crawls (No. 3 on the map), the open-air aquarium (No. 9) or the Sponge Lofts (No. 13).
“Yet there your correspondent is at number 18 between Johnson’s Tropical Grove (number 17) and the Lighthouse and Aviaries (number 19),” Hemingway wrote. “This is all very flattering to the easily bloated ego of your correspondent but very hard on production.”
The idea of Hemingway actually writing must have seemed a curious concept to readers of the day.

