Hemingway and the Lion

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There was a photo where you could see a man who all alone had killed an immense lion. The viewers were impressed.

A lion happened to pass by. He was skeptical and explained: “What fantasy! If the photographer had been a lion, you’d see a very different picture.”

The photo signed by Hemingway is from
The John F. Kennedy Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
EH 7018P Ernest Hemingway on safari, Africa. January, 1934. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Date: January, 1934
Copyright: Unknown

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Seen at  http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/hemingway-on-writing/

Everybody recognizes that Hemingway was a great writer, one of the greatest. He made the language his own.
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However
it is a pity that his philosophy or his world view was not quite up to snuff. It was what could be called a flat world view.
And yet probably his achievement is of the lasting kind. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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Seen at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/listen-to-this-hemingways-short-moving-nobel-prize-speech/
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The fable, by Aesop or La Fontaine, is not about a photographer, but about a painter and a lion who saw the painting.

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On exposait une peinture
Où l’artisan avait tracé
Un lion d’immense stature
Par un seul homme terrassé.
Les regardants en tiraient gloire.
Un lion, en passant rabattit leur caquet.
«Je vois bien, dit-il, qu’en effet
On vous donne ici la victoire:
Mais l’ouvrier vous a déçus:
Il avait la liberté de feindre.
Avec plus de raison nous aurions le dessus,
Si mes confrères savaient peindre.»
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In un quadro era dipinto
un Leon enorme e forte,
preso e vinto
da un sol uomo e messo a morte.

Glorïavasi la gente
nel vedere un tanto ardire,
ma un Leon ch’era presente
prese a dire:

- Fantasia!
Tutto mio questo valore
io scommetto che saria,
se un Leon fosse il pittore -.
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Seen at http://cats.about.com/od/catpictures/ig/Polydactyl-Cat-Pictures/StubbyThumbalina.htm

Apparently cats like these, with very many claws, are called Hemingway cats..

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