" said Mr Glegg, in a tone of angry facetiousness.
" Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny, but did not speak.
It was he who coined the term "Big Bang," in a moment of facetiousness, for a radio broadcast in 1952.
Scott Fitzgerald (some of whose correspondence with Hemingway, beginning that year, is also on view) famously urged him to cut the first two chapters of "The Sun Also Rises," complaining about the "elephantine facetiousness" of the beginning, and Hemingway obliged, getting rid of a clunky opening that now seems almost "meta": "This is a story about a lady.
