"What a dream it was," Kismine sighed, gazing up at the stars. "How strange it seems to be here with one dress and a penniless fianc_!

"Under the stars," she repeated. "I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth."

"It was a dream," said John quietly. "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

"How pleasant then to be insane!"

"So I'm told," said John gloomily. "I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. Well, I have that last and I will make the usual nothing of it." He shivered. "Turn up your coat collar, little girl, the night's full of chill and you'll get pneumonia. His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."

So wrapping himself in his blanket he fell off to sleep.

[F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.]

How sweet! Text wie cover. - Fitzgerald - auchn guter. Hab ich damals von meinem Zahnarzt empfohlen bekommen. Vor kurzem hab ich nochmal den großen Gatsby gelesen. - Erstaunlich, welche Filmstills sich da auftun. - Niemals aber möchte ich den Film mit Redford sehen.