剛看完球賽，上來一看樺女士你在隔壁撐着演大片呢，啥大片涅，Mission Impossible，呵呵

先複習一下你一開始的高論：

海明威《老人與海》被退稿49次，誰能經得起49次？反正我不能。

樺女士你要證明有兩點：老人與海被退稿， 而且被退了49次。

你昨天放話出來要回去找讀書筆記，要去UCLA圖書館。結果今晚扭捏了貼了一段CNN的東西。幸好網絡公開，我也看得到這段，你怎麼把後面一段不給大家看看呢？

That, it turned out, was far from the case. Hemingway, living in Cuba, was at work on an encompassing novel about the sea. Nagel says when he sent it Scribner's, they sent it back claiming it was unpublishable.

But they did like the last part, a story about an old Cuban man and his battle with a monster marlin.

是《老人與海》被退稿了嗎？小沙果認真了一回的回帖，老閻說有可能的帖子你怎麼都視而不見？

另外，你那言之鑿鑿的４９次我看你就是把UCLA圖書館翻個底朝天也找不出證據來的。

還有啊，你不要拿圖書館來嚇人，我現在半夜沒法去圖書館，從書架上找兩本摘兩段給你看看，也省得你明天再跑了。

“Mary was Hemingway's typist while he was working on Isand in the Stream. She was not impressed with most of the writing. But then she came to the epilogue, the new story about the man and fish. She read it in one setting and it gave her goosebumps. It was the story that fulfilled his promise as a writer, she told him. Hemingway then sent the draft of the story to Carlos Baker. Baker's reaction was as enthusiastic as Mary's. The new story, title The Old Man and the Sea, was astounding. Hemingway now sensed that he had created another masterpiece and decided to publish the story as a novella, entirely separte from the labored Island in the Stream. It may have been the wisest decision of his entire career - Island was not published until 1970, eleven years after Hemingway's death”

---The Hunt and the Feast: A life of Ernest Hemingway by John Tessitore

“A few week's later they received the news that Charles Scribner had died. For several days Ernest felt abandoned. It seemed there was no one life in the publishing business whom he could trust. A New York publisher restored his faith by saying that The Old Man and Sea should be published in full in a single issue of Life magazine. The suggestion prompted Ernest to write Wallace Meyer, now his editor at Scriber's, proposing that the story be published as a short noval. Meyer endorsed the idea and reported a few weeks later that the Book of the Month club wanted to buy the rights. The news was followd by a cable from Life. The magzine would pay 4000 dollars to print the book in a special September 1952 issue, thus putting The Old Man and the Sea into the hands of five million readers. No other American noval had been offered such wide exposure”

-- The life and the legend: Ernest Hemingway by Richard B Lyttle

看了這個，你應該明白《老人與海》和Isand in the Stream的關係以及出版經過了吧？是不是覺得你那證明“海明威《老人與海》被退稿49次”是不可能的任務了？如果你覺得自己有阿湯哥的本事，要再演下去我也不反對。