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Authors, as a class, have become a kind of tourist attraction in Key West, Fla., in tire same general category as sport fish and gay discos, sunsets and hibiscus. Ernest Hemingway, who wrote nearly half his life's work here between 1928 and 1938, was the first big draw, and he is still the dominant local legend. As a resident, Novelist David Kaufelt (Six Months with an Older Woman) is fond of explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts...
...near other writers. Key West offers serendipitous encounters, noon walks, short talks. There are always parties, to refuse virtuously or to attend offhandedly, where balloons float in the pool and conversations are about Mozart's feelings for his mother or the best way to propagate a dinner-plate hibiscus. And there are none of the kind of sly references to agents, advances, deals, options and contracts that poison the air of the Hamptons. Or so the Key West authors claim...
...excursion across the Green Line into East Beirut and a new world. Shops show pretty summer dresses. Beach balls hang in clusters in the toy stores. Hibiscus glows red in the dark green hedges. It is on the high ground, East Beirut; the air is almost cold. Except for the Jeeps and the armored personnel carriers, you would not know there was a war in the vicinity...
South Florida?that postcard corner of the Sunshine State, that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West?is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost...
...warm evening, as the soft Caribbean breeze stirs the hibiscus blossoms and the peal of the surf can be heard