A bit of a Hemingway stretch, but...
[QUOTE=ZebraStripes81;2574890]I think it's the element of danger and the unknown- at least as perceived by a sheltered gringo mongers on holiday. Scandallo, etc does not provide this dramatic tension[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2574975]...but he was a war correspondent, and those were brutal times...[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=WyattEarp;2574999]Vila Mimosa lends itself to literary comparisons.
In addition to the perceived danger for foreign interlopers, raw and unbridled sexuality is on display amongst the squalor and decay . . .[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2575789]...I have no idea what slumming in 4th tier RJ bordellos has to do with him. That is pure fantasy...[/QUOTE]NB, I couldn't help but think about, Hemingway, as a war correspondent and the trauma that goes with writing about war, would lead me to think, [I]"Are newbies visiting Rio's VM bordellos, having a traumatic event?" [/I] and hence out comes their inner Hemingway, when they report on ISG.
Okay, it is perhaps a bit of a stretch and as you say [I]"pure fantasy"[/I], but it did make me wonder.
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[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2575789]His sad end should have no bearing on understanding the meaning of his life or the profound insights into the human condition which he wrote about and gave to the world in his literature.[/QUOTE]True. It's just that this isn't a literature club. It's a place to discuss P4P around the world. Really wanting us all to get back to exactly what the site is about, and I'm positive that isn't to discuss the contributions of Hemingway, or any other literary giant. The only "literary giants" around here who matter are those who write good field reports!