Only new members will automatically be shown what I've finally found as an acceptable guideline, or "rule," if you must. So I'm posting it here so existing members can see it anytime they like.
From a letter from FSF to his friend Gerald Murphy, written September 14, 1940, 98 days before FSF's death on December 21, 1940. FSF is in Hollywood, working on a script for Shirley Temple. On his own time, he's writing The Last Tycoon. He's trying to keep Zelda cared for and in a private institution, and paying to keep daughter Scottie in Vassar.
FSF writes:
"I find, after a long time out here, that one develops new attitudes. It is, for example, such a slack soft place--even its pleasure lacking the fierceness or excitement of Provence--that withdrawal is practically a condition of safety. The sin is to upset anyone else and much of what is known as "progress" is attained by more or less delicately poking and prodding other people This is an unhealthy state of affairs. Except for the stage-struck young girls people come here for negative reasons--all gold rushes are essentially negative--and the young girls soon join the vicious circle."
No vicious circles? And, conversely, no endless poking and prodding? Acceptable?
From a letter from FSF to his friend Gerald Murphy, written September 14, 1940, 98 days before FSF's death on December 21, 1940. FSF is in Hollywood, working on a script for Shirley Temple. On his own time, he's writing The Last Tycoon. He's trying to keep Zelda cared for and in a private institution, and paying to keep daughter Scottie in Vassar.
FSF writes:
"I find, after a long time out here, that one develops new attitudes. It is, for example, such a slack soft place--even its pleasure lacking the fierceness or excitement of Provence--that withdrawal is practically a condition of safety. The sin is to upset anyone else and much of what is known as "progress" is attained by more or less delicately poking and prodding other people This is an unhealthy state of affairs. Except for the stage-struck young girls people come here for negative reasons--all gold rushes are essentially negative--and the young girls soon join the vicious circle."
No vicious circles? And, conversely, no endless poking and prodding? Acceptable?