Hemingway is one of the greatest writers: his books are considered among the best ever: The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises…
I am fonder of the first and last. There is one thing which makes me dislike Hemingway, the man- his passion for killing animals.
A Man of the World is a very good story, about a blind man who smells and knows the sound of all the gambling machines in the saloon. He is called Blindie, but in his past was a very good fighter. He got blind during a fight and had to quit fighting after that.
During the fight, people were shouting bite it off…and that is what happened- Blindie’s eyes were bitten off. Blindie used to be called Blackie.
The adversary is in even worse shape than Blindie, who joked and said to his enemy: