![]() He hadn’t.” Faux Fitzgerald criticizes Hemingway for considering the virus “just influenza,” and adds, “I’m curious his sources.”įor my part, I was curious to discover what experience Fitzgerald actually did have with the pandemic of 1918-1919.įrom one of the walls of books in the narrow corridor of my apartment I pulled The Letters of F. If I hadn’t known already this was a joke, the giveaway comes when the faux Fitzgerald tells us in uncharacteristically awkward prose that he told Hemingway the bars were closed, and Hemingway punched him in the stomach for his pains, “to which I asked if he had washed his hands. “It seems as though the bulk of the city has retreated to their quarters, rightfully so,” writes the fictional Fitzgerald, and one might say exactly the same of Paris right now, or Rome, or San Francisco. Indeed, it had been a parody written for McSweeney’s a few weeks ago. ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald wrote while “quarantined in the south of France during the Spanish influenza outbreak.” And almost as quickly came another email from someone else telling me the original was a fake. PARIS-An email arrived a few days ago, shared by a friend of a friend of God knows who, that purported to be something F. ![]()
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