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...most distressing misstatement by Crocker is the that audience was "prim and proper" Hardly the case! Our Stein Club supplied the audience with substantial amounts of liquid enthusiasm. Stein Club's presence seems to be the best explanation for how an 8-cent goldfish could be sold for nearly 50 dollars...
Arriving late to the Kirkland bidding, we worked our way down to the depths of the house basement and found ourselves in a tightly packed room of boisterous bidders. Stein club was under full swing in the lounge next door, but remnants of the free beer and food were evident amid the bidders. The crowd was loud and boisterous, clearly under the influence of more than just excitement for the next item up for sale. But spirits were high as bidders were urged to go higher and beat out the competing offers...
...Joel Stein...
...Joel Stein...
Perhaps the tragedy of Hemingway's legacy isthat it appeals with visceral force only those ofhis generation, the young men who would dance withbulls in cafes, imitating the master. The crucialfact is that the famous epigraph to The Sun AlsoRises--Stein's "You are all a Lost Generation"--isneither pretentious nor empty: for Hemingway andfor many of his contemporaries, the assertionthrough life and through writing of theunflinching code of sportsmen’s honor was not asilly return to childhood but a search for a codeof behavior that meant something in a post-Warworld where the land of childhood...