Sublime

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

“I first called the book Fiesta, only later on The Sun Also Rises.

The last time Scott had been in Paris, he got the Hemingways locked out of one apartment and in trouble with the landlord all the time.

Zelda était jalouse du travail de Scott, et quand il nous arriva de les mieux connaître, ce fut un fait acquis. Scott décidait parfois de ne plus passer des nuits entières à boire, de faire de l’exercice tous les jours et de travailler avec régularité. Il se mettait au travail et dès qu’il travaillait bien, Zelda commençait à se plaindre de son enn

profligate of you,” I murmur, bewildered by the choice,

Infinite Jest had been driven by his dysfunctional yearning for Mary Karr;

He flirted a very little, too – oh, so expertly! – and looked slightly disconcerted and then delighted when he found that his gallantries amused instead of confusing me. He would have been even more disconcerted if he’d known that, in a queer sort of way, he was reminding me of Daddy: I hadn’t heard this sort of clever, over-sophisticated chatter s