Where will you be on July 4? When Ernest Hemingway was finishing a novel in Paris in 1929, he let a fellow writer read the manuscript. F. Scott Fitzgerald responded with 10 pages of handwritten comments. Among them: “slow and needs cutting…rather gassy…definitely dull…offensive…too glib.” But in his notes, which are now among Hemingway’s papers at the JFK Presidential Library, he also called it a “beautiful book” and urged Hemingway to end what would eventually be titled, “A Farewell to Arms,” with a “wonderful” passage that included these lines: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.” Hemingway rejected that suggestion and wrote at the bottom of Fitzgerald’s letter, “kiss my ass.” The “broken places” passage wound up tucked away in Chapter 34.