Word: pamplona
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...wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin has suggested, Hemingway sent postcards back home: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here." He worked hard at his writing, and yet the interval between Fossalta and Ketchum was also a kind of permanent vacation: Paris, Pamplona, Africa, Key West, Havana, Wyoming. Readers chained to their jobs and mortgages and hometowns and responsibilities could pick up Hemingway and taste the wine and see the fish jump, and become Hemingway for a little while...
...hard fans of the Cafe Pamplona would do well to check out this nearby alternative, where, in addition to the Orzata, Italian sodas, and cappucino, members of the literati can also indulge in a delicious plate of tortellini...
...this play, she was not comprehensible to us. Later, at the Cafe Pamplona, we discussed this play with our very European friends. None of us could comprehend this. "This play, it makes no sense to me," Francois was to say. "I agree, my friend. It is tres confusee!" Dominique said, lighting another clove cigarette...
...writing The Name of the Rose. In a volume shorter than even its paltry 84 pages would suggest, Eco chats with us over the meaning of the book's title and more The book's theme raises enough coffee-table questions to run up a sizable bill at the Pamplona: "How much should an author identify with his characters?" "Can an historical novel be truly modern?" "Can a novel written today be truly historical in outlook?" "Is there a medieval postmodernism?" "Is the detective story the ultimate in metaphysical fiction...
...most talked about and least seen film in recent memory. Start with a semi-obscure literary topic tinged with the Oriental mystery (Schanberg wrote an article about his efforts to find Dith Pran, and E.M. Forester's novel has been appeared in God only knows how many Cafe Pamplona discussions), favorable advance press in the right places, and a restricted New York-LA-Chicago distribution, and you have the makings of a film with big, big Harvard appeal...