max bergen wrote back and said the world is not ready for this. hemingway said this is the word that describes the character best, so it stays in. they write back and forth about the "f" word being used in the book. hemingway is working on another book. let's just print, publish, and wrote on. max perkins thanked him for removing the word. hemingway wrote him back and said, thank you. go fornicate yourself. hemingway's characters are big. he is a hunter. he is a fisherman. he has an ego larger then his own life. that is what people believe, what you tell people about yourself. if you since your talks about yourself, which he does not need to, you think you are just with a larger-than-life character and the biggest author in the world, self admitted in his writing alone, and probably would have a trouble telling you. he had this entire life, from adolescence. he was taller than his classmates. he played high school football while working on the school newspaper. hemingway has the ability to be all things. i think that is what makes his writing so g