Sublime

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

Paris, where he hobnobbed with many other American expatriates, Fitzgerald among them.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived.

He seemed kind and charming — his voice promised that he would take care of her, and that a little later he would open up whole new worlds for her, unroll an endless succession of magnificent possibilities.