When It Rains It Pours

[hello_helloo]

I was really looking forward to the 3 day weekend.  But things don't always happen the way you want or expect

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[thisoldanvil]

I’m sorry about the loss of Lance’s grandmother. What you said about her and the grandfather being married 64 years (!), and what he told you, reminded me of something I’d read once. I had to dig around but I found it. It’s Hemingway, "Death in the Afternoon

[thisoldanvil]

Wow, that almost made me cry. Thanks for the quote. I may need to read that book. I am embarrassed to admit that I've never read any Hemingway.

[thisoldanvil]

Wait! If you're just starting out with Hemingway, I definitely do not recommend "Death in the Afternoon." Not a bad book but it's a little weird. It's about bullfighting in Spain, something of which Hemingway was quite the aficionado, with a little philosophizing like that quote thrown in.
You might start with his short stories, he was a master of the form, or his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises." The last thing he wrote, "A Moveable Feast," a memoir of his younger days in Paris, is very good.