A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE

pub. on giu 08, 2008

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	A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It was later included in his 1933 collection, Winner Take Nothing. Adapted for Second Life. Featuring Zoar Borel as the cafe worker.
	She is one of those who like to stay late at the cafe. With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.
	Each night she was reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe.
	This is a clean and pleasant cafe, she thought. It is well lighted. The light is very good. It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and light. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. She disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing.
	What did she fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that she knew too well. Todo es nada. It was all a nothing. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but she knew it was already nada y pues nada y pues nada.
	Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
	She smiled to herself and without thinking further, she would go home to her room.
	She would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, she would go to sleep. After all, she said to herself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926. It was later included in his 1933 collection, Winner Take Nothing.

Adapted for Second Life. Featuring Zoar Borel as the cafe worker.