sarahf , 4 months ago to bookstodon

"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
-- #Hemingway #AMoveableFeast #Spring @bookstodon

MikeDunnAuthor , 9 months ago to bookstadon

Today in Writing History September 1, 1952: The Old Man and the Sea was first published. Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #hemingway #PullitzerPrize #books #novel #writer #author #fiction @bookstadon

crimedad , 10 months ago to pics

[OC] Some B&W photos of Barcelona

I am not a serious photographer, but with the help of black and white filters I can pretend.

#barcelona #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #beach #plaza #plaça #hemingway #people

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The entrance side to Bar Marsalla. There are two ports in the stone wall, framed with this wood and glass. At the top of each is an old exhaust fan, not spinning. Some graffiti is on the wall between the two ports. (Black & white.)
An interior view of Bar Marsalla, facing the same entrance side wall as the previous photo. Four patrons, consisting of two couples at different tables, one behind the other, sit below a lit chandelier and a ceiling with old, peeling paint. (Black & white.)
A skateboarder sitting on the ground of a plaza after having just fallen. A pigeon waddles in the foreground. In the background is a brick and stone wall with large artistic signage. (Black & white.)
A Korean woman walks through a plaza, towards the left of the frame. She wears a dark, sleeveless dress with a flowery pattern. Lots of other people walk in the background. (Black and white.)
A view of a sunny, cloudless sky from beneath a beach umbrella. (Black & white.)
A repost of the photo I took of the delivery worker on the beach. This version is black and white and is cropped more closely around the delivery worker so that only one other beachgoer is visible in the bottom of the frame.

MikeDunnAuthor , 10 months ago to bookstadon

Today in Labor History August 14, 1846: The authorities jailed Henry David Thoreau for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of the Mexican War. Aside from this early act of American civil disobedience and war resistance, Thoreau also wrote, “Walden.” His essay, “Civil Disobedience,” influenced generations of activists and writers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Tolstoy, Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, Upton Sinclair and Martin Buber.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #thoreau #MartinBuber #proust #hemingway #gandhi #MartinLutherKing #activism #jail #antiwar #writer #author #books @bookstadon