Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Photographs courtesy of Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
The following is an excerpt from one of his novels, The Beautiful and The Damned published in 1922:
"I love it," she said frankly. It was impossible to doubt her. .... At her happiness, a gorgeous sentiment welled into his eyes, choked him up, set his nerves a-tingle, and filled his throat with husky and vibrant emotion. There was a hush upon the room. The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child near by, the voice of the violet-hatted girl at the next table, all moved slowly out, receded, and fell away like shadowy reflections on the shining floor--and they two, it seemed to him, were alone and infinitely remote, quiet. Surely the freshness of her cheeks was a gossamer projection from a land of delicate and undiscovered shades; her hand gleaming on the stained table-cloth was a shell from some far and wildly virginal sea..."
Cool Factoid about F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott was named from Francis Scott Key, a distant cousin and composer of the lyrics to “The Star Spangled Banner.”
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