Friday, May 07, 2010

We're all insights, not incites

Ernest $#!&# Hemingway


While editing The Sun Also Rises, Maxwell Perkins had to decide how to handle the many obscenities in Hemingway’s text. He planned a lunch with the author and kept a list of words to discuss with him.

While Perkins was at lunch, Charles Scribner came looking for him and, finding his office empty, consulted his calendar. It read “shit piss fuck bitch.”

When Perkins returned, Scribner said, “You must be exhausted.”


Ka-Ching!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just the punch line. "No need to hurry honey, he said is was gonna take a shit first."
Tim

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