The Monsignor & The Teenager

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"Why do I make lists?" Amory asked him one night. 
"Lists of all sorts of things?"

"Because you're a mediaevalist," Monsignor answered. 
"We both are. It's the passion for classifying and finding a type."

"It's a desire to get something definite."

"It's the nucleus of scholastic philosophy."

"I was beginning to think I was growing eccentric 
 till I came up here. It was a pose, I guess."

"Don't worry about that; for you not posing 
 may be the biggest pose of all. Pose—"

"Yes?"

"But do the next thing."

F. Scott Fitzgerald 
This Side of Paradise
 (1920)

The fictional Monsignor is Thayer Darcy.

The 17year-old teenager is Amory Blaine.












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