July 2012
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“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy - one of those...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nicole: The poor man. Why did you want to saw him in two?
Abe: Naturally I wanted to see what was inside a waiter. Wouldn't you like to know what was inside a waiter?
Nicole: Old menus. Pieces of broken china and tips and pencil stubs.
Abe: Exactly - but the thing was to prove it scientifically. And of course doing it with that musical saw would have eliminated any sordidness.
Tommy: Did you intend to play the saw while you performed the operation?
Abe: We didn't get quite that far. We were alarmed by the screams. We thought he might rupture something.
Nicole: All sounds very peculiar to me. Any musician that'll use another musician's saw to -
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“They looked out over the Mediterranean. Far below, the last excursion boat from...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night.
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“Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found...”
– W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz 