| | Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works |
 | | One of the first things you realize when you read Hemingway, and this was in fact one of the boldest brushstrokes in the portrait of himself which he presented to the world, is that the man loved to eat and drink. |
 | | Rather, it lies where the rest of his value lies, in an art so deeply involved in the world of sense-experience, an art in which the five sensory organs are virtually instruments of thought and expression, that we share in that world, which Hemingway made to come alive at his fingertips. |
 | | Just as Hemingway's chiseled prose brings us to breathe the air his characters breathe and feel their emotions at a remove, so that same prose makes us taste the meals they eat and savor the wines they sip in a world as three-dimensional as good writing can make it. |
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