love. Oh not for aye, Endymion, mayst thou unfold the purple
panoply of priceless years. She sleeps--PRISCILLA sleeps--and
down the palimpsest of age-old passion the lyres of night breathe
forth their poignant praise. She sleeps--eternal Helen--in the
moonlight of a thousand years; immortal symbol of immortal aeons,
flower of the gods transplanted on a foreign shore, infinitely
rare, infinitely erotic.[1])

[1] For the further adventures of Priscilla, see F. Scott
Fitzgerald's stories in the "Girl With the Yellow Hair" series,
notably "This Side of Paradise," "The Offshore Pirate," "The Ice
Palace," "Head and Shoulders," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"
"Benediction" and "The Beautiful and Damned."



CHAPTER FIVE

THE SPIRIT OF '75

LETTERS OF A MINUTE MAN

In the Manner of Ring Lardner

Friend Ethen--

Well Ethen you will be surprised O. K. to hear I & the wife took
a little trip down to Boston last wk. to a T. party & I guess
you are thinking we will be getting the swelt hed over being ast
to a T. party. In Boston.