The reference to the man in the cape is "the diabolist
Aleister Crowley." He also turns up in Henry Miller
somewhere.
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick King wrote of A MOVABLE FEAST:
>
> It's a great portrait of people struggling
to
> create;
> chooseing alies and dealing with
professional
> jealousy, their own, and jealousy aimed at
them.
>
> ***************
> I have mixed feelings about it. I liked it
because
> of
> the wicked gossip woven into it. Really
nasty
> towards
> Gertrude Stein and Fitzgerald didn't come
out
> looking
> very good either. It's been a while since I read
it
> but doesn't it portray the beginning of the
collapse
> of the Fitzgerald family, with Zelda heading
towards
> crazy? My problem with it, though, is that it
shows
> Hemingway's tendency to turn against his
former
> friends, something pointed out earlier by
Richard
> Moore.
>
> As a side note on the who's who in A Movable
Feast,
> I
> think that there's a reference to a man walking by
a
> cafe with a cape on. It doesn't say, but I've
heard
> it's Aleister Crowley.
>
> And The Sun Also Rises is as near perfect as I
need
> in
> life.
>
> miker
>
>
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