Posted
8:56 AM
by Gene
Sighhhhhhhhhh, another Forbes.com quote:
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
What news hacks can do when they leave out context: Fitz wrote this in a petulant letter to Ernest Hemingway after Papa published an
Esquire story (
Esquire ran
stories?!?!?), "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," whose narrator refers to "
poor Scott Fitzgerald." (Their editor, the great Maxwell Perkins, later changed the name for an anthology.) Of course, Fitzgerald
was poor at the time, and drunk.