Writers Laughing: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

September 18, 2014

Writers Laughing: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

These two have haunted me for years. So beautiful. So doomed.

Ah well, it’s good to see them laughing:

And this – well, this is just fantastic:

More blogging carnage tomorrow. Enjoy the writers laughing…until the twilight sets in… (How’s that for an onward and upward? Onward and upward…into the dying sun and the dark night of fate…!? I’m blaming Scott and Zelda! Poor, poor Scott and Zelda…)

Image Credits: Princeton University, listal.com

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Jacke Wilson is the host of the popular podcast “The History of Literature,” available for free on iTunes, Stitcher, and other podcasting platforms. Learn more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature.

9 responses to “Writers Laughing: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald”

georgetteann

September 18, 2014 at 9:38 pm

Love this. 🙂

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Mytwosentences

September 18, 2014 at 9:46 pm

This is so terrific.

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raulconde001

September 18, 2014 at 11:02 pm

I love the picture. 🙂

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P. S. Hoffman

September 18, 2014 at 11:23 pm

It’s nice to know that, even though we are all in a sense ‘doomed’, happiness can happen anyway.

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1. jackewilson
  
  September 19, 2014 at 4:43 am
  
  Very well put. Thank you!
  
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D.H. Rotmil

September 19, 2014 at 2:24 am

So poignant. Love this.

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1. jackewilson
  
  September 19, 2014 at 4:43 am
  
  Me too! Scottie is always so heartbreaking in the biographies…they tried so hard for her sake. It’s great to see the three of them together.
  
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sarasallydavis

September 21, 2014 at 3:57 pm

I, too, have felt a deep sadness at times for these two. Zelda’s illness was an undercurrent always , I think. In The Moveable Feast, the memoir of the early Paris years, Hemingway caught such nuances of each of them and of their relationship. It gave me a new understanding. Wonderful laughter, even if transitory,

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1. jackewilson
  
  September 22, 2014 at 5:06 am
  
  Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for stopping by!
  
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