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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