Edward Hoagland on Cornelius Boghosian

In “African Calliope: a Journey to the Sudan”, Edward Hoagland wrote about Cornelius Boghosian, an Armenian who bore a stark likeness to Hemingway: “Boghosian wore a bristly gray moustache and safari jacket, with suitably clipped manner that showed he had been an officer with one of Montgomery’s divisions. Yet behind these familiar emblems, this protective coloration was an Armenian insistence upon a life of infinite possibilities; that we might stay out in the moonlight forever, that we might fall into another cushy berth with a dictator that we might all die this evening, or become banner friends.”

In “African Calliope: a Journey to the Sudan”, Edward Hoagland wrote about Cornelius Boghosian, an Armenian who bore a stark likeness to Hemingway: “Boghosian wore a bristly gray moustache and safari jacket, with suitably clipped manner that showed he had been an officer with one of Montgomery’s divisions. Yet behind these familiar emblems, this protective coloration was an Armenian insistence upon a life of infinite possibilities; that we might stay out in the moonlight forever, that we might fall into another cushy berth with a dictator that we might all die this evening, or become banner friends.”

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