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...carelessness"; the others are all dead. The story is secondary to the novel's brilliant crystallization of the pace and mood of the '20s and to what Fitzgerald himself called "blankets of beautiful prose." Deprived of that prose, a writer is in the position of "the poor devil of a screenwriter," in Fitzgerald's short story, Financing Finnegan. After trying to adapt "a distinguished author's novel," he says, "it's all beautiful when you read it, but when you write it down plain it's like a week in the nuthouse...
...like the rockpile just outside the village, on the side of the road. Every time a campesino passes by there on the way to his field, he throws another stone on the pile, so that the devil will stay away." The padre took a long sip of beer from the glass on the table and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Or their custom of spilling out some of their drink before they have any of it to give thanks to Pachamamma, their Mother Earth. It's left over from their pagan beliefs...
...Devil Was Laughing
...When watching The Exorcist, I was sure that God, too, felt bemused, and the Devil was laughing his head off. The audience I saw giggled and laughed when it was supposed to faint and vomit...
...high school All-American from Milford, Conn., transferred to Harvard after one term at Duke, where he averaged 19.3 points and shot 57 per cent from the field in eight games with the Blue Devil freshmen...