Sublime

She’d persisted herself into a narcotic, and though I hate to admit it, I became as attached to her as I was to Hadley.”

The book belongs to the author.”

Hemingway had disliked Zelda since their first meeting in Paris, when he gazed into her “hawk’s eyes” and saw a rapacious spirit. He estimated that 90 percent of Scott’s problems were her fault,

“No brilliant idea was ever born in a conference room,” he assured the Dane. “But a lot of silly ideas have died there,” said Stahr. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

veriest tyro

So, as in Death in the Afternoon, he writes beautifully, and then immediately turns it off with a flippant comment, or a deliberate obscenity.

“Before an author destroys the natural qualities of his writing—that’s