Discovered during New Pop Lit's recent excursion to northern Michigan.
There's a small town in Michigan named Aloha, near where the young Ernest Hemingway used to visit. (You can look it up.)
The story goes that Ernest stopped at a tavern in Aloha. While drinking a beer at the bar he engaged in conversation with one of the locals, who was either a lumberjack, or an American Indian.
"What do you say when you write people?" Hemingway asked. "Aloha from Aloha?"
"I'm actually from Detroit," the man told him.
"Well, then I guess it's 'Aloha from Detroit,'" Hemingway said, touching beer glasses with the fellow.
THE QUESTION
Have the smart-looking New Pop Lit "Aloha from Detroit" t-shirts been designed to celebrate that legendary Hemingway remark?
Not really. But they could have!
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2 comments:
Couldn't the man have been both a lumberjack and an American Indian?
Of course. But Hemingway differentiated the two groups in the Nick Adams stories, which might indicate the jobs didn't usually go to native Americans.
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