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The Monday Morning Memo

Ernest Hemingway in Spain around 1950.

Born in 1899, Hemmingway was a contemporary of Marc Chagall and
Isaac Bashevis Singer. His writing, characterized by terse minimalism
and understatement, in the rain, had significant influence on
the development of twentieth century fiction.

Hemingway’s leading men are stoic males who manifest
grace under pressure. Many of his works are considered 
classics in the canon of American literature.

Hemingway was part of the 1920s community of Americans in Paris,
known as “The Lost Generation,” a name coined and popularized
by Gertrude Stein. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1954, seven years before his death by suicide in 1961. 

Below, Ernest Hemingway discourses with an accidental
time-traveler
during the 1920s in the movie, Midnight in Paris.
You must see it. It can be rented. On Amazon. In the rain.
 

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“My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking: first with a piece of oil paper, and then with a piece of blue paper, to tie them round with a string; and then to clip the paper close and neat all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop. When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained this pitch of perfection, I was to paste on each a printed label; and then go on again with more pots. Two or three other boys were kept at similar duty downstairs on similar wages. One of them came up, in a ragged apron and a paper cap, on the first Monday morning, to show me the trick of using the string and tying the knot. His name was Bob Fagin; and I took the liberty of using his name long afterwards, in Oliver Twist.”

- Charles Dickens, who in 1824 at age 12 went to work to help pay his father's debts. From an autobiographical fragment included in John Forster's 1872 biography of Dickens:

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