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Mother still doubts and predicts gruesome fates for his wife, Father is frankly astonished and not too pleased. In fact I rather believe he enjoyed having an author in the family, even if his books did look a bit decadent on the library table. From time to time I receive subscription lists and invitations from Uncle George. I keep them for use in my new book, “Theories of Genius.” You see, I claim that if Dante had ever won—but a hypothetical sixth act is just as untechnical as a real one.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.
… Well this side of Paradise! …
There’s little comfort in the wise.
—Rupert Brooke.
Experience is the name so many people
give to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde.
[The text follows the third 1920 printing of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition.]
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
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To Sigourney Fay
Book One.
The Romantic Egotist