European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The daily grind photo by Peter Jaeger it takes a wild Hare to experience Hemingway by John Windrow staff columnist i once heard the Story of a Man who took his Hemingway far too seriously and suffered on account of he was a Friend of a and like Many romantic Young he had devoured Hemingway since he could not afford to go to he went to an foreign there he drank too As All Hemingway characters must and waited for something exciting to sure it came one Day in the a very Large mexican challenged him to a fist they went out into the Dusty Street to do things didst go according to the and my friends Friend was taking a needing a he grabbed a Beer bottle and attempted to break it on his the bottle  despite his Best and the remainder of the fight consisted of the Hemingway fan beating the daylights out of his car while the big mexican did likewise to i dont know if the latino had read his Hemingway or i witnessed similar unhappy episodes in College in i was a literature every once in a usually Halfway through an american lit some Starr eyed sort from the suburbs of Louis would decide to go out to one of the redneck watering holes and taste life a la i can see the Hardy farm boys rubbing their Horny fists with waiting for some student who had just finished men without women or death in the afternoon to walk into the when my fellow scholars they usually hit the floor in an falling like Beer being poured from a As if even their Bones had suddenly gone this sort of thing happens yearly in of is the setting for Hemingway outstanding novel the Sun also in this people get drunk and join the locals in the famed running of the to celebrate the feast of the fighting bulls Are run through the town to the where one of the bloodiest of All sports is carried out in the daredevils Are encouraged to get out into the streets and run with the which usually Chase trample them or Gore them with their wicked the runners Wear red kerchiefs around their symbolic of the blood that will soon flow either in the Street or in the Hemingway fans turn out by the hundreds of thousands for the and always some of them Are suitably i think its time for some other Type of Hemingway one where merry makers could revel in a More vicarious after some of us who have enjoyed the books simply dont want to know what it feels like to be chased by a we need something to boost tourism Here in Central we dont have much Sunshine and we dont have an abundance of i propose a running of the bunnies in the rain festival for we have millions of Bunny rabbits around Here and everyone knows about our cold Winter which comes after our foggy Well have it in in Honor of the easter the rain is warmer in april and the rabbits Are comely Fraulein a could go out into the Fields and drive the bunnies toward the they could Wear traditional costumes while they beat the Bushes with propelling the rabbits before this colourful spectacle would be a big tourist american and japanese people could follow along clicking their that would probably stir up even More of course there would be plenty of Beer and wine stands along the say every Hundred Yards or entrepreneurs would be encouraged to sell key Gim cracks and when the procession entered the outskirts of Brave Young men would charge out among the bunnies dashing to and fro among the Thunder of Rabbit feet As the milling throng crossed the Bridge Over the main and made its Way toward the Center of the heroic runners would All Wear red bandanas around their Heads with Gold lettering that said Kani Chen Haben Zaehnle rabbits have anyone who got gored by a Bunny ear would be singled out for special earning the first dance with the Queen of the Rabbit Roundup at the big dance that if by some Odd circumstance it Doest wed import a gang of american indians to do a rain dance another tourist photo this could boost the Economy and give everyone a Chance for some Good clean not Only everyone would feel better the Day you dont need nearly As much firewater in your system to run with the if the running of the bunnies in the rain Doest fire the Public imagination Well Call it Hemingway without August stripes Magazine