The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, December 15, 2017

Things people want to make the world safe from

Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise.

24, when he published this allegedly largely autobiographical novel, his first.

A racist, a nativist, and a snob, judging by the main character.

"Germany stood for everything repugnant to him; for materialism and the direction of tremendous licentious force[.]"

Why Amory Blaine believed in the war.

His two years in the army he relates - no, ignores - in a period of six pages.

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