("It's the only way we can keep the kids pacified.") Though as yet unpublished, young Hendricks, a he-mannish ex-sailor from Oklahoma who smokes a pipe and has a mustache and a crop of untamed black hair, at least looks literary-in fact, remarkably like youthful photographs of the writer he most admires, Ernest Hemingway.
Hendricks gazteak, oraindik ezer argitaratu gabea izanik ere, Oklahomako marinel-ohia eta gizaseme galanta zenak, bere pipa, bibote eta kalpar beltz moldagaitzarekin idazle itxura izan behar: eta, izanez ere, gaztetako argazkietako Ernest Hemingwayrena, gehien miresten zuen idazlearena alegia.