For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Robert Jordan
Rip's impressions
Beautiful story. Next to Old Man and the Sea, it's my favorite.
first line
He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees. The mountainside sloped gently where he lay; but below it was steep and he could see the dark of the oiled road winding through the pass.
last lines
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He could feel his heart beating against the pine needle floor of the forest.
literary tidbits
Read "The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles" by Stephen Koch. It's about the falling out between the two men in Spain during the civil war. Hemingway comes across as a real prick and a commie dupe.
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