Mexico Dispatch #01

After months and months of trudging through Ernest Hemmingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls", the time and space of a much needed vacation has allowed me to finally finish this great read. My only regret is starting this adventure on my short-attention span NYC commute… Hurry-up, STOP! Hurry-Up, STOP! Not affording the time and concentration to fully appreciate such a rich novel, not to mention Hemmingway's descriptive prose.

ALSO Orwell's memoir on his time in Spain during the war. A fantastic read that not only covers his experiences there, but offers an full-scale overview of the entangled relationships between the Spanish Government, International Brigades, the P.O.U.M, the anarchists, the P.S.U.C. and the various other parties that made up the resistance to the fascist. A great read, and an interesting vignette into, I think, one of the most complex, romanticized and foreboding conflicts of the 20th century.