Sublime

morrow.” She addressed it to Tommy at his club, from which in one short month he would have to resign, unless

L’héritière de Wierzchownia, née comtesse Rzewuska, doit alors décider si elle peut épouser son moujik et troubadour, génial certes, mais endetté, prodigue, un troubadour sur qui on ne peut faire fond et dont les manières restent incurablement plébéiennes. Il va falloir choisir entre deux aristocraties, celle du sang et de l’argent et celle du géni

I know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free.

I was with the magazine Cosmopolitan, then a literary magazine, before its defoliation by Helen Gurley Brown, and the editor was planning an issue on the future of everything: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture, Henry Ford II on automobiles, Picasso on art, and, as I said, Hemingway on literature.

Son fonds spéculatif, L’Envers du Capital, avait été baptisé en hommage au premier roman de Fitzgerald, dont l’action prenait place dans les cours gothiques de son université.