A movable feast part 2

In Page 50 - 100 Hemingway writes about bicycle racing, horse races meeting other great writers and daily life in Europe. It seems like their is a aimlessness to Hemingway's life outside of his craft of writing. Gertrude Stein dubbed Hemingway's generation the "lost generation" and I can see why. One of the most striking lines in the book I have read to far was Hemingway's claim that he doesn't trust anybody who wasn't in the war. Although not specially described in the book the reader does get the sense that World War I loomed large in Paris of the 1920's. While reading "The movable feast" I often wondered how Hemingway got the money pursue all those activities and interests on a starving artists wages. It seems Hemingway drank at a lot of bars and cafe's, he was sort of a drunk and later in life succumbed to alcoholism leading to a suicidal end. "A Movable Feast" so far as painted a picture of a vibrant artistic community of Americans in Paris, the type of artistic scene that was romanticized and de-romanticized in the Woody Allen film "Midnight in Paris" where Hemingway's character is certainly intriguing. Hemingway mentions writing the story "Up in Michigan" He had a cottage on Walloon Lake which is a very beautiful place. My family took a vacation up their one summer. The perch fishing is excellent.

I think it's interesting that young people of the 1920's were refereed to as the lost generation as our generation has also been referred to as a lost generation.