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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Key West |
 | | As an artifact of popular culture, Key West generates powerful and often contradictory cultural messages: it is at once a quintessential Navy town and a haven for literary figures, beachcombers, and assorted eccentrics. |
| | For poet Wallace Stevens,; the essence of Key West was its aqueous ambiguity, its ephemeral substance surrounded by the "ever-hooded, tragic gestured sea." His well-known poem, "The Idea of Order at Key West," can be interpreted as a hymn either to order or disorder, or to a subjective reality simultaneously negotiating between both. |
| | Leicester Hemingway writes that his brother's Key West period "begins in the public mind with a picture of a bronzed giant fighting huge fish,; then heading inshore for the roughest, toughest bar to celebrate the catch, possibly pausing somewhere to beat out a letter to Esquire, using words growled from one corner of the mouth. |
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