Tuesday, February 01, 2005

I'd Miss, Too

Mary [Hemingway] was an erratic shot: she could kill a small kudu deer with a single bullet through the throat at a distance of 375 yards, but she was also capable of missing “Jesus Christ sitting on William Faulkner’s lap, even with the light at her back”.

--from *Ernest Hemingway Rediscovered,* by Norberto Fuentes, p. 105.