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The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Hemingway's Financing Finnegan

It's shocking for us to realize just how unsuccessful he felt his own life to have been and yet how brave he remained to the end. I mean, that's one of the great things about this piece is that it's kind of deeply admirable. It also moves brilliantly from a kind of, because it's written in three stages and was published in three issues of Esquire. And there's a strong feeling of like, sort of stop bullshitting me. What's really going on here?

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