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 get the money rolling. 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 he was to sit here and talk about himself, you would think you are with a larger-than-life character. this is something that followed him his entire lifetime. 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 great. he can touch many different levels of life and different social levels of life and relate to them all. in