We quarrel and that makes the time pass.' 'I can't listen to it,' he said.' Talking is the easiest. 'Anything in the book that we haven't read.' 'You can take the leg off and that might stop it, though I doubt it. I think we might make it as easy as we can until the plane comes.' 'It's that I've gotten so very nervous not being able to do anything. 'You know it doesn't bother me,' she said. That's funny now.''I wish you wouldn't,' she said. I watched the way they sailed very carefully at first in case I ever wanted to use them in a story. 'Today's the first time any have lit on the ground.

'They've been there since the day the truck broke down,' he said. The cot the man lay on was in the wide shade of a mimosa tree and as he looked out past the shade onto the glare of the plain there were three of the big birds squatted obscenely, while in the sky a dozen more sailed, making quick-moving shadows as they passed. 'Now is it sight or is it scent that brings them like that?' THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT’S painless,' he said. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai,' the House of God. Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. As a result, he came up with his own code of human conduct: a mixture of hedonism and sentimental humanism. Hemingway, in particular, found himself in a moral vacuum when he felt alienated from the church, which was closely affiliated with Franco in Spain, and which he felt obliged to distance himself from. In broader terms, The Snows of Kilimanjaro should be viewed as an example of an author of the 'Lost Generation', who experienced the world wars and the war in Spain, which led them to question moral and philosophy. The text in italics also reveals Hemingway's fear of leaving his own work of life unfinished. His fear that his own acquaintances with rich people might harm his integrity as a writer becomes evident in this story. Hemingway remarked in Green Hills that 'politics, women, drink, money and ambition' damage American writers. This short story - written in 1938 - reflects several of Hemingway's personal concerns during the 1930s regarding his existence as a writer and his life in general.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Editor's Note:

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