'a single strain of light'

[terminal7]

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A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN 1920 IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE DURING THE SPANISH INFLUENZA OUTBREAK:

Dearest Rosemary,

It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my ears.

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You should see the square, oh, it is terrible. I weep for the damned eventualities this future brings. The long afternoons rolling forward slowly on the ever-slick bottomless highball. Z. says it’s no excuse to drink, but I just can’t seem to steady my hand. In the distance, from my brooding perch, the shoreline is cloaked in a dull haze where I can discern an unremitting penance that has been heading this way for a long, long while. And yet, amongst the cracked cloudline of an evening’s cast, I focus on a single strain of light, calling me forth to believe in a better morrow.

Faithfully yours,
F. Scott Fitzgerald

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thi ... -of-france

[UncleEbenezer]

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Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940. That puts him firmly out of copyright.

[redsturgeon]

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Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940. That puts him firmly out of copyright.

That would only be relevant if Mr Fitzgerald wrote this.

John

[stewamax]

All very elegant and prosy, but to me he sounds slightly pi**ed.

[terminal7]

All very elegant and prosy, but to me he sounds slightly pi**ed.

Sorry if pushing the copyright thing but included in the edits are reference to - I broadly quote - that Zelda and Scott had stocked up on red wine, whiskey, rum, vermouth, absinthe, white wine, sherry, gin, and even brandy for medicinal purposes. No mention of food.

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