This week’s challenge from Sara at WP made me think about contours and designs in gardens and landscapes, carousels, chairs, and Gina Lollobrigida. Curves are everywhere.
These curves are for looking through ~ into the carriage house of Ernest Hemingway. Inside is Papa’s Royal typewriter, his Cuban cigar-maker’s chair, and mementoes he collected from around the world. It’s here that he worked on Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, To Have And Have Not, For Whom The Bell Tolls, and many of his most-famous short stories. And where, most importantly, he took naps.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Toni 6/20/13
Great quote and as a fellow nap lover one I”ll have to remember!
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Jessie, here’s my favorite nap quote (not that I have a collection of them) ~
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
From the man himself, Yogi Berra.
Toni
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Love it!
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Curves to Hemingway to a nap….. what a journey! I love the leaps your mind takes, Toni!
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Ronnie, leaps and bounds. And then some. My teachers made note of it on my report cards. (They weren’t as kind as you.) Aren’t you glad we don’t get those anymore? Toni
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It seems like such a small area to have housed such a big life. Perhaps it was by design so he was cozy enough to nap.
The curves to peer through seem very appropriate for this creative space.
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I have to agree with you. The house is small, and his writing space in the carriage house is smaller. Cozy for cigar-smoking. The guy wrote standing up, must have needed a nap after a writing blitz. He spent winters in Key West, mostly outside or on a boat. Then off to Idaho for the summers. He was larger than life, wasn’t he?
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