F. Scott Fitzgerald
Greetings and salutations. You’ll forgive me, I’ve been mixing grain and grappa. Now this is a writer, Gil, yes?
Gil
Gil Pender.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gil Pender.
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway.
Gil
Hemingway?
Hemingway
You like my book.
Gil
Liked? I loved, all your work.
Hemingway
Yes, it was a good book because it was an honest book, and that’s what war does to men. And there’s nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully, and then it’s not only noble but brave.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Did you read my story? What’d you think?
Hemingway
There was some fine writing in it, but it was unfulfilled.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I might have known you’d hate it.
