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| Eight days after the publication of this book, Scott & Zelda were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Six guests witnessed the ceremony on March 3, 1920. |
The wonder and love of reading
a particular book
can only be improved upon
by allowing
a passage of time
and then
reading the book again
Black velvet trails its folds over the day,
White tapers, prisoned in their silver frames,
Wave their thin flames like shadows in the wind,
Pia, Pompia, come–come away––
Her toes are stiffened like a stork in flight;
She's laid upon her bed, on the white sheets,
Her hands pressed on her smooth bust like a saint,
Bella Cunizza, come into the light!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
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Footnote
The poem is attributed to "D'invilliers," who was a fictional creation of Scott Fitzgerald.
The next Fitzgerald page is here.
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