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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

hahaha


sooo i was reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and came across this one part that made me laugh out loud- literally. Sooo I thought i'd share it with you. ahem. from Tom the Censor as Tom and Amory Blaine discuss great American Literature, or rather, the seeming lack of it.

"and gloom," said Tom. "That's another favorite, though I'll admit the Russians have the monopoly. Our speciality is stories about little girls who break their spines and get adopted by grouchy old men because they smile so much. You'd think we were a race of cheerful cripples and that the common end of the Russian peasent was suicide-"

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