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A look at their titles shows their variety. You remember books of the room, piled on the desk, beside tables, jamming the shelves in indiscriminate order-novels, histories, collections of poetry, drama, essays.

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Though it allows more space for writing, it too has its miscellany: stacks of letters, a stuffed toy lion of the type sold in Broadway nighteries, a small burlap bag full of carnivore teeth, shotgun shells, a shoehorn wood carvings of lion, rhino, two zebras, and a wart-hog-these last set in a neat row across the surface of the desk-and, of course, books. The numbers on the chart showing the daily output of words differ from 450, 575, 462, 1250, to 512, the higher figures on days Hemingway puts in extra work so he wonвЂ™t feel guilty spending the following day fishing on the Gulf Stream.ДЄ man of habit, Hemingway does not use the perfectly suitable desk in the other alcove. He keeps track of his daily progress-вЂњso as not to kid myselfвЂќ-on a large chart made out of the side of a cardboard packing case and set up against the wall under the nose of a mounted gazelle head. Hemingway shifts to the typewriter, lifting off the reading-board, only when the writing is going fast and well, or when the writing is, for him at least, simple: dialogue, for instance. The page completed, he clips it facedown on another clipboard which he places off to the right of the typewriter. He places the paper slantwise on the reading-board, leans against the board with his left arm, steadying the paper with his hand, and fills the paper with handwriting which through the years has become larger, more boyish, with a paucity of punctuation, very few capitals, and often the period marked with an x. He keeps a sheaf of the blank paper on a clipboard to the left of the typewriter, extracting the paper a sheet at a time from under a metal clip that reads вЂњThese Must Be PaidвЂќ. When Hemingway starts on a project he always begins with a pencil, using the reading-board to write on onionskin typewriter paper.

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He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu-the typewriter and the reading-board chest-high opposite him. There is just enough space left on top of the bookcase for a typewriter, surmounted by a wooden reading-board, five or six pencils, and a chunk of copper ore to weight down papers when the wind blows in from the east window.ДЄ working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes.

It is on the top of one of these cluttered bookcases-the one against the wall by the east window and three feet or so from his bed-that Hemingway has his вЂњwork-deskвЂќ-a square foot of cramped area hemmed in by books on one side and on the other by a newspaper-covered heap of papers, manuscripts, and pamphlets. The other walls are lined with white-painted bookcases from which books overflow to the floor, and are piled on top amongst old newspapers, bullfight journals, and stacks of letters bound together by rubber bands. Beyond it, at the far end of the room, is an armoire with a leopard skin draped across the top.

In the other alcove stands a massive flat-top desk with two chairs at either side, its surface an ordered clutter of papers and mementos. A large and low double-bed dominates one section, over-sized slippers and loafers neatly arranged at the foot, the two bedside tables at the head piled seven-high with books. The room is divided into two alcoves by a pair of chest-high bookcases that stand out into the room at right angles from opposite walls.

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The door between the two is kept ajar by a heavy volume listing and describing вЂњThe WorldвЂ™s Aircraft Engines.вЂќ The bedroom is large, sunny, the windows facing east and south letting in the dayвЂ™s light on white walls and a yellow-tinged tile floor. The bedroom is on the ground floor and connects with the main room of the house. He has a special workroom prepared for him in a square tower at the southwest corner of the house, but prefers to work in his bedroom, climbing to the tower room only when вЂњcharactersвЂќ drive him up there. Conversation in a Madrid cafe, May, 1954Д®rnest Hemingway writes in the bedroom of his house in the Havana suburb of San Francisco de Paula. Interviewed by George Plimpton Issue 18, Spring 1958Д®rnest Hemingway, ca.

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