addendum

Now it is necessary to get to the grindstone again. I would like to live long enough to write three more novels and twenty-five more stories. I know some pretty good ones.

--the rest of what Hemingway wrote, again from the same preface

I'm amazed by his untainted eagerness, his unequivocal determination to keep writing. To batter his pen to the point of destruction so long as he could work out the words in his mind.