Chronology Entry
Year
1941
Text
Gellhorn, Martha. Travels with myself and another [ID D30445].
"He [Ernest Hemingway] learned to speak coolie English, a language related to West African pidgin and Caribbean English, and was seen laughing with waiters and rickshaw coolies and street vendors, all parties evidently enjoying each other. He love Chinese food and would return from feasts with his Chinese crook-type friends searing they'd been served by geisha girls, and describe the menu until I begged him to stop, due to queasiness. He was ready to try anything, including snake wine, the snakes presumably coiled and pickled in the bottom of the jug… He felt that the Hongkong Chinese, given to gambling, rice wine and fire-crackers, had great savoir vivre."
"He [Ernest Hemingway] learned to speak coolie English, a language related to West African pidgin and Caribbean English, and was seen laughing with waiters and rickshaw coolies and street vendors, all parties evidently enjoying each other. He love Chinese food and would return from feasts with his Chinese crook-type friends searing they'd been served by geisha girls, and describe the menu until I begged him to stop, due to queasiness. He was ready to try anything, including snake wine, the snakes presumably coiled and pickled in the bottom of the jug… He felt that the Hongkong Chinese, given to gambling, rice wine and fire-crackers, had great savoir vivre."
Mentioned People (2)
Gallhorn, Martha
(St. Louis, Missouri 1908-1998 London) : Journalistin, Schriftstellerin
Hemingway, Ernest
(Oak Park, Ill. 1899-1961 Selbstmord, Ketchum, Idaho) : Schriftsteller, Reporter
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1985 | Meyer, Jeffrey. Hemingway : a biography. (New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1985). S. 357. | Publication / Hem3 |
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