Sublime

Il m’avait raconté à La Closerie des Lilas comment il écrivait des nouvelles qu’il croyait bonnes, et qui l’étaient effectivement, pour le Post, et comment ensuite il les modifiait avant de les soumettre à des magazines, sachant exactement par quels trucs transformer ses nouvelles en textes publiables dans tel ou tel périodique. J’avais été scandal

Once Hemingway signed with Scribners, Max Perkins thereupon became the moderator in the literary friendship between Ernest and Scott.

I asked Ernest about Harold and Pat and he explained that Harold Loeb was Princeton from a very rich New York family, had been on the boxing and wrestling teams in college. He had literary aspirations, even started a little magazine in Paris called Broom. Fiercely devoted to Duff, very jealous of Pat, who alternated weekends with Duff.