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the jazz age For reasons beyond me, I decided to take Tender is the Night off of the bookshelf and started reading it. It's been years since I read anything by Fitzgerald, but I still love what he wrote. It has less to do with the content and more with how he says what he does. Most of the trappings of the Jazz Age hold little interest for me, but the way that he describes his characters as they move through Europe is something that never gets old for me. I think that it was because of him that I wanted to see the Mediterranean with my own eyes. On a slightly related note, I sat through the movie Chicago and it wasn't as painful as I had imagined. Musicals to me are the female equivalent of science fiction for men. Both genres have elements that stretch the levels of disbelief, but people are willing to overlook them because of their fondness of the characters that inhabit these farcical worlds. Men can accept that alien species almost always seem to look human and speak a form of English, while women have no problem accepting the fact that someone breaks into song and dance for no logical reason and no one around them thinks that they are insane. |