Wednesday, July 06, 2005
The Bird Also Rises
Today marked the start of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, at the festival of San Fermin. Here the crowd waves the traditional red bandanas to kick off the proceedings. Hundreds of thousands of locals and foreign visitors packed the central square of this northern Spanish city where they sprayed each other with cheap sparkling wine and shaving foam and smeared each other in flour and mustard. It was a Bird type of crowd.Due to attending the G8 summit in Edinburgh Bird was unable to attend this year's festival. His great, great grandfather attended the festival with Ernest Hemingway years ago and advised the writer on the galleys of The Sun Also Rises, which made the festival famous.
The picture here shows Papa Bird and Papa Hemingway hard at work on the manuscript. Papa Bird's chief contribution was one of the classic lines from the novel.
"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste."
It was always a great time when those two old birds got together to write.
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