photo caption: Still Life, Santa Olaya, PR -- Aug, 2012
... he made himself a drink. Then he cut the string around the big bundle of magazines and paper and spread them on the table. The magazines looked fresh and virginal compared with the way they looked when they arrived (by mail boat) on the island. He took up The New Yorker. At the island he had always saved it for the evenings and it had been a long time since he had seen a New Yorker of the week of publication, or one that had not been folded. He sat in the deep comfortable chair and drank his drink...
[excerpt from: pg 196, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by Ernest Hemingway; Part I, BIMINI. Published by Scribner, New York, First Scribner trade paperback edition, 2004]
Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR
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