It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
from Battle for Paris, printed in Collier’s on September 30, 1944
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remarkable! inexplicable!
inexplicable? I thought it was fairly well explicated… 🙂
What a treat to find someone who loves Hemingway, as I do! Have you by any chance seen and/or read Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure?
http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-132
I loved both.
No, I’ve never heard of it. How interesting! Need to devote some time to that link… thanks!!