He reads Emerson, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, even the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. "Ernest Hemingway would never live in today's Key West ... He would live right here on Big Torch Key. It's the old Keys." If Hemingway were alive, he might be pals with Chapman, who grew up in a Miami suburb near the Everglades and became an expert hunter and fisher.
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