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Hemingway Adventure
Havana, Cuba (tenth day)
To the airport in a vintage Chrysler. As it is precisely the same age as the black Chrysler that Hemingway used to drive, there is always a chance he swung this one round the same corners. Not always with much success. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins from the Finca in July 1945, Hemingway describes yet another messy accident, '[It] was at noon and I was cold sober,' before adding, more incriminatingly, 'Fourth bad smash in a year. Fortunately only two got into print.'
Amazingly enough, in 1955, the most accident-prone man in the world was awarded the Order of St Christopher, for those who had driven exceptionally safely in Havana. Hemingway apparently regarded this as more precious than the Nobel Prize he1d won the year before. He passed the Nobel medal on to a church at Cobre near Santiago de Cuba. And there it resides to this day, in the Chapel of Our Lady of Miracles.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Hemingway Adventure
- Chapter: Havana, Cuba (tenth day)
- Country/sea: Cuba
- Place: Havana
- Book page no: 228
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