Therefore the World

". . . I arranged to meet someone in a cafe in one of my favourite squares in Paris (therefore the world) - la Place Contrascarpe, which is further north, round the back of the Pantheon and near the Sorbonne, a walk up hill through some twisty little streets. . . It's famous in a literary sense as Hemingway and Hadley lived and drank here when they first moved to Paris and he immortalised it in "A Moveable Feast", plus Samuel Beckett hung out here and allegedly based the two tramps in Waiting for Godot on the "clochards" who hung out under the trees (and still do!). Anyway, I found out there is a Joyce connection too - he lived just a few yards off the Place Contrascarpe for the final work on Ulysses - you have to get in this front gate... It's famous in a literary sense as Hemingway and Hadley lived and drank here when they first moved to Paris and he immortalised it in "A Moveable Feast", plus Samuel Beckett hung out here and allegedly based the two tramps in Waiting for Godot on the "clochards" who hung out under the trees (and still do!). Anyway, I found out there is a Joyce connection too - he lived just a few yards off the Place Contrascarpe for the final work on Ulysses - you have to get in this front gate:'