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Head and Shoulders
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
Published:
1920
Type(s):
Short Fiction
Source:
http://gutenberg.org
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 About Fitzgerald:
FrancisScottKeyFitzgerald(September24,1896–December21,1940)wasan AmericanJazzAgeauthorofnovelsandshortstories.Heisregardedasoneof thegreatesttwentiethcenturywriters.Fitzgeraldwasoftheself-styled"LostGeneration,"Americansborninthe1890swhocameofageduringWorldWarI.Hefinishedfournovels,leftafifthunfinished,andwrotedozensofshortstoriesthat treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
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"I Didn't Get Over"
(1936)•
"The Sensible Thing"
(1924)•
This Side of Paradise
(1920)•
The Beautiful and the Damned
(1922)•
 Babylon Revisited
(1931)•
 Bernice Bobs Her Hair
(1920)•
 An Alcoholic Case
(1937)•
Winter Dreams
(1922)
Copyright:
This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50.Cette oeuvre est disponible pour les pays où le droit d'auteur est de 50 ans aprèsmort de l'auteur.
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In1915HoraceTarboxwasthirteenyearsold.Inthatyearhetooktheexamin-ationsforentrancetoPrincetonUniversityandreceivedtheGrade A—excellent—inCæsar,Cicero,Vergil,Xenophon,Homer,Algebra,PlaneGeo-metry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry.TwoyearslaterwhileGeorgeM.Cohanwascomposing"OverThere,"Horacewasleadingthesophomoreclassbyseverallengthsanddiggingouttheseson"TheSyllogismasanObsoleteScholasticForm,"andduringthebattleof Château-Thierryhewassittingathisdeskdecidingwhetherornottowaituntilhisseventeenthbirthdaybeforebeginninghisseriesofessayson"ThePragmaticBias of the New Realists." Afterawhilesomenewsboytoldhimthatthewarwasover,andhewasglad,becauseitmeantthatPeatBrothers,publishers,wouldgetouttheirneweditionof"Spinoza'sImprovementoftheUnderstanding."Warswereallverywellintheirway,madeyoungmenself-reliantorsomethingbutHoracefeltthathecouldneverforgivethePresidentforallowingabrassbandtoplayunderhiswin-dowthenightofthefalsearmistice,causinghimtoleavethreeimportantsen-tences out of his thesis on "German Idealism."The next year he went up to Yale to take his degree as Master of Arts.Hewasseventeenthen,tallandslender,withnear-sightedgrayeyesandanair of keeping himself utterly detached from the mere words he let drop."IneverfeelasthoughI'mtalkingtohim,"expostulatedProfessorDillingertoasympatheticcolleague."HemakesmefeelasthoughIweretalkingtohisrep-resentative. I always expect him to say: 'Well, I'll ask myself and find out.'" Andthen,justasnonchalantlyasthoughHoraceTarboxhadbeenMr.BeefthebutcherorMr.Hatthehaberdasher,lifereachedin,seizedhim,handledhim,stretchedhim,andunrolledhimlikeapieceofIrishlaceonaSaturday-afternoonbargain-counter.TomoveintheliteraryfashionIshouldsaythatthiswasallbecausewhenwaybackincolonialdaysthehardypioneershadcometoabaldplaceinCon-necticutandaskedofeachother,"Now,whatshallwebuildhere?"thehardiestoneamong'emhadanswered:"Let'sbuildatownwheretheatricalmanagerscantryoutmusicalcomedies!"HowafterwardtheyfoundedYaleCollegethere,totrythemusicalcomedieson,isastoryeveryoneknows.AtanyrateoneDecember,"HomeJames"openedattheShubert,andallthestudentsencoredMarciaMead-ow,whosangasongabouttheBlunderingBlimpinthefirstactanddidashaky,shivery, celebrated dance in the last.Marciawasnineteen.Shedidn'thavewings,butaudiencesagreedgenerallythatshedidn'tneedthem.Shewasablondebynaturalpigment,andsheworeno
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