![]() ![]() There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. And if one can open doors to riches any time, one’s youth never can be revisited… Youth and riches are two cherished treasures. “Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” It is probably the most known quote of F. Midas… Does it ring a bell? Any tale beginning like this can’t fail. Midas’s School near Boston - Hades was too small to hold their darling and gifted son. ![]() Nothing would suit them but that he should go to St. That respect for a New England education which is the bane of all provincial places, which drains them yearly of their most promising young men, had seized upon his parents. And now, for a certain time, he was to be away from home. Unger, who had just turned sixteen, had danced all the latest dances from New York before he put on long trousers. Unger was known “from hot-box to hot-bed,” as the local phrase went, for her political addresses and young John T. John’s father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest Mrs. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant satirist: sharp-eyed and sharp-witted… ![]()
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