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Hemmingwayadapt
Hemmingwayadapt
On the way: A place you pass by when you are going somewhere.
Wondered: [Wonder – past tense] Think about something
French Words:
Luxembourg gardens: [Luxembourg is the name of the gardens.] A place in central Paris
I always got very hungry when I walked in ___(1)_____ Paris. The ___(2)____ bakery
shops had [have] such __(3)_____ things in the ___(4)_____ windows. __(5)______ people
ate [eat] outside at ___(6)____ tables on the ____(7)____ sidewalk, so I saw [see] and smelled
the ____(8)____ food. Sometimes I had no ____(9)_____ money. Then the best place to go
was the Luxembourg gardens where I saw and smelled nothing to eat from the Place de
l’Observatoire to the rue de Vaugirard. On the way, I always stopped at the Luxembourg
museum.
was so hungry. I wondered if one ___(12)____ painter, Cezanne, was also hungry when he
painted. Now, I think he was. He was not hungry because he was poor (like me). He was
hungry because he forgot [forget] to eat. All he did [do] was paint. Maybe Cezanne was
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Adapted from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Edition: Touchstone (Simon &
Schuster Inc.): New York, 1996; p. 69.