Sublime

He would honor Perkins five years later by dedicating The Old Man and the Sea to him.

At one point he told Cowley that the man he would most like to resemble was Major General John Aaron Rawlins. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, Rawlins was “the most nearly indispensable” officer of General Grant’s staff. It was his job to keep Grant sober; edit his important papers and put them in final form; apply tact and persis

Into the fourth July since The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was encouraged when James Joyce came to dinner at his home in Paris.