Browsing the blog archivesfor the day Sunday, February 8th, 2009.

Dementia Praecox Fitzgerald

humor, writers' lives

After Zelda Fitzgerald was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized, she wrote to Scott that if she were released, “We shall have all the children we can, and call them Dementia Praecox Fitzgerald–Dear, how gruesome!”

Source: Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI 1920-1950

Quote of the moment

fiction, humor

Regarding Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges:

It’s full of more brainfuckery than a mensa whorehouse.

From “rokusan” in this Metafilter thread.



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