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[proximoception]

I haven't forgotten about the people I haven't memed yet, and who will be memed whether they like it or not. Early Dave Sim is hard and will take a while, is all; while Beckett's so easy that a good idea how to make him harder might take a while. "The Lost Ones (Club Remixxx)" is still hilarious to me, presumably me alone, but does not fit the person in question. And Fitzgerald I thought would be easy as pie, but I'm rereading Gatsby and finding that past a small number of period 'tells' the main feature of his style is that his metaphors are unspeakably, unobtrusively awesome. Excellence is very hard to imitate.

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[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

his metaphors are unspeakably, unobtrusively awesome

Seconded. You speak of an old favourite and any time I dared say, I was called "a romantic" and blonde at that; just because I cultivated a flapper style in my long lost youth, I suppose?

In my humble opinion, Scott Fitzgerald has always been vastly underrated, almost overlooked at times, possibly due to his subjects and part-time lifestyle which seem to be mistaken for his pet peeves by more than one uncautious reader.

"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz" is one of the funniest, most devastatingly dystopian moralities I have hitherto read. I also like how the devil suddenly turns up at a party, unnanounced and almost unnoticed: just sitting there, hoofed and yellow-faced with no further explanation in, I think, Tender Is The Night. Gives one the creeps how elegantly his presence is presented.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Some of the best metaphors of Fitzgerald's sound like him imitating things Zelda would say. So maybe not so hard. Plagiarism begins at home.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Should one imitate her instead?

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I've decided yet which side to take on that question.