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Article: THE YOUNG MAN AND THE TATTOO, OR, FAREWELL TO BARE ARM.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1999
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Byline: JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE, STAFF WRITER
Ernest Hemingway's new book, ``True at First Light,'' was edited by his son, not Hemingway. It is the latest posthumous publication of work by Papa, who was born 100 years ago today. One Hemingway fan will not pour a cup of coffee and crack open ``True at First Light'' this morning. Instead, he will bend open his mottled copy of ``The Old Man and the Sea'' and wonder why, as a 19-year-old sailor stationed aboard the carrier Roosevelt, he got that awful Hemingway tattoo.
HE WAS A young man who sailed aboard an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean, and he had gone 19 years without taking a tattoo. In the first ...