As someone who spent most of my childhood hoping to be a writer someday, I loved this quote on the very first page:
"He often said he'd died in the war, just for a moment; that his soul had left his body like a silk handkerchief, slipping out and levitating over his chest. It had returned without being called back, and I often wondered if writing for him was a way of knowing his soul was there after all, back in its place."
Anyway, I am loving this book so far. I recently watched Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," and now reading this book is adding to my dreamy visions of Paris in the 1920s. Ernest and Hadley aren't even in Paris yet but the mannerisms and the details regarding this time period in general is very fun.
I am particularly fascinated by the fact that Hadley was a real person in the history of time but this book is a fictional book written in her voice. It makes me wonder which facts are true and which facts are creative additions on the part of the author.
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As someone who spent most of my childhood hoping to be a writer someday, I loved this quote on the very first page:
"He often said he'd died in the war, just for a moment; that his soul had left his body like a silk handkerchief, slipping out and levitating over his chest. It had returned without being called back, and I often wondered if writing for him was a way of knowing his soul was there after all, back in its place."
Anyway, I am loving this book so far. I recently watched Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," and now reading this book is adding to my dreamy visions of Paris in the 1920s. Ernest and Hadley aren't even in Paris yet but the mannerisms and the details regarding this time period in general is very fun.
I am particularly fascinated by the fact that Hadley was a real person in the history of time but this book is a fictional book written in her voice. It makes me wonder which facts are true and which facts are creative additions on the part of the author.
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