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The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Are You Ready to Wrap Up?

I think the strength of those essays, I read it through twice the crack up. It's such a brilliant mixture of genuine self-revelation but also framing failure in a way that was palatable to the person writing it. The idea that it's purely confessional, that he's just typed out something, seems nonsense to me. Georgia, that doubles as your annual appraisal. That's a round of applause. Thank you.

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