A month later in a letter to Pound, he mentioned that "You, naturally, would say, "Good" etc. But don't say it to me. I ain't reached that mood." In his reply, Pound pointed out that Hemingway had only lost "the "time" it will ... take you to rewrite the parts you can remember ... If the middle, i.e., "FORM", of the story is right then one ought to be able to reassemble it from memory ... If the thing wobbles and won't reform ... then it never "wd." have been "right"." Critics are uncertain whether he took Pound's advice and re-created existing stories or whether everything he wrote after the loss of the suitcase was new.