Was It the 20s That Inspired You?

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, you're all a lost generation. Perhaps it suddenly brought us the sense of change or irresponsibility. But don't forget that although the people in the 20s seemed like flops, they weren't. They worked damn hard and all the time. Did the lost generation attitude have a detrimental effect on your own work? Silly of me to blame it on dates, but so would happen to be. Dammit, it was the 20s and we had to be smarty. I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. You have an extensive reputation as a wit