European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hemingway was equally at Home sitting behind a typewriter or sighting Down the barrel of a Rifle. Hemingway s 1 1 a  it x5i�sk3�3 is amp Vosis Febbi amp i iss Bow aka h \ Joku a. S. A a a of Etc swirl / i i Raj 30 years after his death the Man and the myth still fascinate Gregorio Fuentes was Hemingway s fishing companion during the author s years in Cuba. Bys Bulpett associated press they sit in the cafes of Paris trying to see what he saw. A a a. A searching they go to the bullring of Pamplona and the bars of key West and the canals of Venice and the Harbor in Cuba where an old Man thinks he remembers the genesis of the Story of the big fish. A. A a. They buy his books in great numbers. They meet in. Determined conclave trying to put together the separate parts of the Man. They dissect and debate Esoterica. Did. He really mean the first line to begin Quot on a hot evening in Padua. Quot or was it von a hot evening in Milan. Quot a did the rape of Maria in for whom the Bell tolls a a suggest an. Inner hatred of women should we look. Beyond the objective facts of his life to the Quot formative process of the generic artist using Art to exorcise personal demons and reshape a world of failed traditions Quot biographers scholars professors of English literature students writers of books it writers of Magazine articles. Writers of master s theses curious tourists big game Hunters deep sea fishermen intellectual voyeurs pursuers of the vicarious drinkers without cause keepers of the flame All they give the subject of Ernest Hemingway a life of its own nearly 30 years after he raised a double barrelled Shotgun to his head just three weeks before his 62nd birthday. Other writers have written with greater depth and breadth but few if any get such continued and varied attention. Ernest Hemingway is alternately hailed As a shaper of the modern novel the Martin Luther of the j simple declarative sentence the rambo of american letters. A who else rates a bust in the Ritz bar in Paris or near the bullring in Pamplona Spain or in thes aside Gazebo Ini Cojimat Cuba when the Bronze head was cast from boat fittings donated by local fishermen this a Short walk from the Quot Hemingway Marina Quot and the hotel called Al Viejo be mar after his most popular novel. Did anybody Ever name condos after William Faulkner or a Bush jacket with Horn buttons Cartridge loops and recoil pad after Ralph Waldo Emerson How Many other Nobel laureates have inspired such sports headlines As Quot sub also rises Quot or a c catering service in Warrenton va., called Quot a moveable feast Quot or birthday fiestas in which otherwise sane people drink and stage a Quot running of the bulls Quot by pushing  with plastic horns Down the unsuspecting streets of Oak Park iii., and key West fla.?. Critics May argue his place in literature but Ernest Miller Hemingway the Man the writer and the my the the masterful stylist and vulnerable artist the Macho 72 stripes Magazine january 31, 1991