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...deserted the little red house on 12 Bow Street to go on to bigger and better things. Fortunately for the citizens of Cambridge, the 200-year-old house has not been left unoccupied. It is now the proud possession of Josefina Yanguas who owns and runs the Cafe Pamplona...
...Harold Loeb. The original of Robert Cohn in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises tells why Pamplona in 1925 was a fiesta to remember...
...deliberately left out; and 4) the friendship of a fledgling expatriate writer, amateur boxer and soso tennis player named Ernest Hemingway, who dubbed Loeb "one of the better guys of all time." By the end of the fiesta at Pamplona, Spain in the summer of 1925, Broom had folded, Loeb had all but parted from his mistress. His novel was still unpublished, and the friendship with Ernest Hemingway had so cooled that Hemingway would shortly bury it with his waspish portrayal of the Loeb-inspired Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises...
...fiesta in Pamplona the tensions boiled over. Pat and Duff were back together, but the lovesick Harold could not quite believe that the great affair had ended. He irritated Hemingway by finding the bullfights less than rapturous, indeed "shameful" (Loeb momentarily rode a young bull's head, broncobuster fashion, in the amateur frolic). On the last night of the festival, they stepped into an alley to slug it out. "I don't want to hit you," said Harold. "Me either," said Hemingway. The hairy-chested novelist saved his punch for The Sun Also Rises...
...nothing so much as it is "our generation's" vanity. There is some sentiment around today that young people, post World War II, parallel in their reaction to their problems the young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear from sources such as The Editor neglects the existence of those of us who don't expect...