There are many swanky editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 breakthrough novel,
This Side of Paradise, but one of my favorites is the
Dover Thrift paperback, still a bargain at just $3.50.
Somewhere in his mind a conversation began, rather
resumed its place in his attention. It was composed not
of two voices, but of one, which acted alike as
questioner and answerer:
Question.--Well--what's the situation?
Answer.--That I have about twenty-four dollars to my name....
Q.--Can you live?
A.--I can't imagine not being able to. People make money in books and
I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books.
Really they are the only things I can do.
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
