On Hemingway’s relationship with biking, speculating that the author had difficulty writing about... more On Hemingway’s relationship with biking, speculating that the author had difficulty writing about the subject because the sport lacked meaning for him. Freeze recounts his own history with biking beginning with his Mormon missionary days in the south of France
I imagine Hemingway in Paris emerging from his home on rue Ferou. He is with Pauline now, newly m... more I imagine Hemingway in Paris emerging from his home on rue Ferou. He is with Pauline now, newly married, a Catholic convert fascinated by this sport he cannot write. So far in Paris there have been a couple books, fame, a certain amount of money and prestige. But he is on the bike because he is unsure about the limits of his talent. He has been to the Velodrome d'Hiver, watched the racers come down the pitch at a velocity that is both terrifying and thrilling. He wants the bike in his pantheon of masculine sports: boxing, big game hunting, bullfighting. All are so clearly male, so dangerous that the stories practically wrote themselves. But the bikes. The racers wear tight shirts with thick horizontal stripes and thin shorts that revealed the striations in their legs. And then there is something about the constriction of the genitals, the vibration of the seat over the wooden boards that makes him
This column is a literary, personal essay about the author’s spouse and her experience with unass... more This column is a literary, personal essay about the author’s spouse and her experience with unassisted birth.
On Hemingway’s relationship with biking, speculating that the author had difficulty writing about... more On Hemingway’s relationship with biking, speculating that the author had difficulty writing about the subject because the sport lacked meaning for him. Freeze recounts his own history with biking beginning with his Mormon missionary days in the south of France
I imagine Hemingway in Paris emerging from his home on rue Ferou. He is with Pauline now, newly m... more I imagine Hemingway in Paris emerging from his home on rue Ferou. He is with Pauline now, newly married, a Catholic convert fascinated by this sport he cannot write. So far in Paris there have been a couple books, fame, a certain amount of money and prestige. But he is on the bike because he is unsure about the limits of his talent. He has been to the Velodrome d'Hiver, watched the racers come down the pitch at a velocity that is both terrifying and thrilling. He wants the bike in his pantheon of masculine sports: boxing, big game hunting, bullfighting. All are so clearly male, so dangerous that the stories practically wrote themselves. But the bikes. The racers wear tight shirts with thick horizontal stripes and thin shorts that revealed the striations in their legs. And then there is something about the constriction of the genitals, the vibration of the seat over the wooden boards that makes him
This column is a literary, personal essay about the author’s spouse and her experience with unass... more This column is a literary, personal essay about the author’s spouse and her experience with unassisted birth.
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