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formerly, the elks club
from hunter s. thompson posted in literature by tree
Now a Prada store, this was the Elks club where HST and his clan called last-minute freak voters and watched the election results when he ran for sheriff of Aspen.
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from hunter s. thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas posted in literature by tree
I believe this was the mint hotel.
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from hunter s. thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas posted in literature by tree
The second place they stayed. Evidently, it was also the first resort on what's now the strip. And it's radically different now.
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from frankenstein, mary shelley, lord byron posted in literature by crabapple
In May of 1816, Mary Goodwin, Percy Shelley (a radical poet-philosopher) and their son traveled with Claire Clairmont to Geneva, Switzerland. Their plan was to spend the summer with Lord Byron, another poet whom Clairmont was having an affair with, on Lake Geneva.
Lord Byron rented the villa, and the group spent time writing, boating on the lake, and talking late into the night.
It was a wet summer, and the group found themselves reading from a book of German ghost stories one evening. They had heard of Erasmus Darwin's experiments, and that he had animated dead matter, and the conversation drifted towards galvinism and assembling a reanimated corpse from body parts. Lord Byron challenged them to write their own horror stories.
Mary Goodwin (who had introduced herself as Mrs. Shelley at the Villa) began work on Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus which was first published in 1818.
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from ernest hemingway posted in literature by elvis_crabs
Hemingway first arrived with his wife Pauline to Key West in 1928. During a three-week wait for a car to be delivered, Hemingway finished A Farewell to Arms in Key West. Also completed at this location were the short story classics "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."
After a couple of seasons in Key West, Pauline's Uncle Gus purchased this home for them. The home is filled with mementos of their time in Europe, as well as trophies from Hemingway's African safaris and hunts to the American west.
The home and grounds were a filming location for the 1988 James Bond film, Licence to Kill.
Today, the house is known as The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, and is open to the public for tours.
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