Slog - Comments on Text Message from San Francisco http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco Walking down Valencia Street yesterday, I saw something in a storefront window. I stopped and read it. It happens to be something I've read dozens of times, maybe a hundred. It was photocopied from a book and enlarged into a huge sort of poster, the letters fuzzy and weird. It was the first paragraph of F. Scott Fitzgerald's post-meltdown autobiographical essay "The Crack-Up." Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work—the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside—the ones you remember and blame... Copyright 2008 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:19:23 -0800 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:21:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Lola This reminds me of why I love F. Scott Fitzgerald with all of my heart. Thank you.

]]> Lola http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589138 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589138 At Large Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:15:28 -0800 Comment by Dee in SF Oh, the Jack Hanley! I don't stop by near as often as I should, considering that it's in my neighborhood.
Hope you're having a great time here! Bundle up!

]]> Dee in SF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589156 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589156 At Large Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:07:11 -0800 Comment by christopher Frizzelle Bundle up? Dee, I just got home to Seattle, where it's about 75 degrees below freezing. By comparison, the weather in San Francisco -- you're right, it was colder than I've ever known it to get in San Francisco -- was sweltering.

The world is truly ending.

]]> christopher Frizzelle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589174 At Large Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:14:11 -0800 Comment by Matt I have a question: why do people say/write things like: "Everything you need to know about writing—and everything you need to know about life—is in that paragraph." It is a patently untrue statement. And what's more, the writer knows it's not really true, and the reader knows it's not really true. Moreover, it is meant to be read knowing that the writer does not mean it in earnest. So why bother writing it? I am genuinely curious.

]]> Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589209 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589209 At Large Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:15:36 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley hmm, Matt has a point.

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589260 At Large Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:52:08 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Just a block and a half from my house, I've never noticed this place?

And... uh, what what? How will I recognize this massive blow if it doesn't show it's affect all at once? I am a fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald's, who is a million times the writer I could be, but really, this is Myspace-blog level stuff here.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589416 At Large Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:16:13 -0800 Comment by charles I'm with Matt.

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589452 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589452 At Large Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:13:50 -0800 Comment by Julia Bovee Hack.

]]> Julia Bovee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/text_message_from_san_francisco#c589470 At Large Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:21:28 -0800