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Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ is a novel that was published posthumously. The book was born from a journal found in a suitcase in The Ritz for almost thirty years. Hemingway had been having lunch in 1956 with the hotel’s chairman when he was asked if he was aware that he had left trunks there in 1930. Ernest did not remember leaving them there, but he vaguely remembered that Louis Vuitton had gifted him a trunk. He eventually had them brought up to his room, and when he opened them, he found a journal containing notes from his time in Paris. This memoir details Ernest Hemingway’s experiences in 1920s Paris. There has and always will be a romantic smog to the dreams we have of Paris. Hemingway captures that beautifully in this short book.

He details his daily eating and drinking routine in the pretty cafés that lined the streets. Squirrelling…

Piano

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; 
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see 
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings 
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song 
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong 
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside 
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour 
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour 
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast 
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

The poem consists of rhyming across each double line. And…

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Barbara Hepworth by Barbara Hepworth, 1950 / Oil and pencil on board / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

German expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962)

1. Self-Portrait, c.1908 / Oil on cardboard / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, ES

2. Self-Portrait, c.1908-09 / Oil on canvas / Princeton University Art Museum, NJ

3. Self-Portrait, c.1909 / Oil on board / Private collection

4. Self-Portrait, 1934 / The Münter House in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany

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I finished the Ramat Hanadiv spread today, drawing the second page from photos, as I had a few moments when I could sort of feel my hands.

I wish I knew what these palm trees were called. They looked amazing.