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F. Scott Fitzgerald Take in 1936
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Take in 1936


Sep 14, 2020, 1:43 AM

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald said in 1936. In the “The Crack Up”, he wrote: "One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the “impossible,” come true. Life was something you dominated if you were any good. Life yielded easily to intelligence and effort, or to what proportion could be mustered of both…"

George Orwell once said, “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” And these woke young men of today are playing games with stickers on their helmets. It will all work out.

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Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald Take in 1936


Sep 14, 2020, 7:33 AM

My take on 2020;
Some people don't want you to think."They" think "they" should do all of the thinking for "you".
By the way wasn't Fitzgerald that guy who wrote about life on an Animal Farm in 1984.
Or was that Orwell?

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Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald Take in 1936


Sep 14, 2020, 9:05 AM

Fitzgerald was a talented writer of fiction and died at a very young age of alcoholism.

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Sep 14, 2020, 9:43 AM [ in reply to Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald Take in 1936 ]

orwell.animal farm and 1984 were two separate works.think we are close,if not already there,to living 1984 for real.consider the thought police.

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