Tag: Hemingway

• Screw the tonic water

  

  As Hemingway wrote, A man goes broke slowly, and then all at once. When you have to put groceries on a credit card, you know you have a problem. And when the credit cards max out and you are paying more in interest than you have money in the bank and you fall behind and the…

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  September 12, 2023

  GOING BROKE

  ‘Big-Hearted River’, Bella the cat, Credit cards, Drinking alone, Hemingway, Michelmoreorless, Nick Adams, No money, Widower

• My own private nursing home

  

  Like Hemingway said, ‘A man goes broke gradually, and then all at once.’

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  March 31, 2022

  OLD AND BROKE

  Bella Donna Michelini, Bill Michelmore, Cocktail hour, Creditors, Deceased wife, Deep in debt, Hemingway, Michelmoreorless, OLD AND BROKE, Susan Brown, Thomas Bernhard, Widower

• Book on alienation still an ‘Angry Young Man’ classic

  

  ‘The Outsider’ written by a 24-year-old Englishman in the Reading Room of the British Museum while he was living in a sleeping bag on London’s Hampstead Heath.

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  December 5, 2019

  ENGLISH LITERATURE

  Albert Camus, Alienation, Angry Young Men, Colin Wilson, Dostoyevsky, ENGLISH LITERATURE, Famous writers, Franz Kafka, Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nietzsche, Self-discovery, T.E. Lawrence, The Outsider