“Whereas a girl of nineteen draws her confidence from a surfeit of attention, a woman of twenty-nine is nourished on subtler stuff. Desirous, she chooses her apéritifs wisely, or, content, she enjoys the caviar of potential power. Happily, she does not seem, in either case, to anticipate the subsequent years when her insight will oftenContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Girl of 19 vs. a Woman of 29 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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RKS Literature: Feeling the Jealousy of Youth (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The only physical disparity between Nicole at present and the Nicole of five years before was simply that she was no longer a young girl. But she was enough ridden by the current youth worship, the moving pictures with their myriad faces of girl-children, blandly represented as carrying on the work and wisdom of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Feeling the Jealousy of Youth (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: England and its Orgies (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them he is only trying to get back his self respectContinue reading “RKS Literature: England and its Orgies (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“…throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbital listening eternally as to the inescapable radio, the coarse melodies of old sins. This corner of Europe does not so much draw people as accept them withoutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: The Timid Europeans at the Munich Psychiatric Conference (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“At first there would be an American cast to the congress, almost Rotarian in its forms and ceremonies, then the closer European vitality would fight through, and finally the Americans would play their trump cards, the announcement of colossal gifts and endowments, of great new plants and training schools and in the presence of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Timid Europeans at the Munich Psychiatric Conference (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There were other patients to see: an American girl of fifteen who had been brought up on the basis that childhood was intended to be all fun-his visit was provoked by the fact that she just hacked off all her hair with nail scissors. There was nothing much to be done for her-a family historyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, orContinue reading “RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: A Kiss Without the Passion of the Universe (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“He kissed her without enjoying it. He knew that there was passion there, but there was no shadow of it in her eyes or on her mouth; there was a faint spray of champagne on her breath. She clung nearer desperately and once more he kissed her and was chilled by the innocence of herContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Kiss Without the Passion of the Universe (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: The Individuality of American Women (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The trio of women at the table were representative of the enormous flux of American life. Nicole was the granddaughter of a self-made American capitalist and the granddaughter of a Count of the House of Lippe-Weissenfeld. Mary North was the daughter of a journeyman paper hanger and a descendant of President Tyler. Rosemary was fromContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Individuality of American Women (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: “The Harvard Manner” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“McKisco’s contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buyContinue reading “RKS Literature: “The Harvard Manner” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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