This is Cool Re: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted by: David Bunch
Author Paul Collins brings us this amazing bit of useless knowledge regarding the fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald first implemented the euphemism "not" back in 1916! Fitzgerald wrote a letter to his friend regarding hazing at Princeton University.
Author Paul Collins brings us this amazing bit of useless knowledge regarding the fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald first implemented the euphemism "not" back in 1916! Fitzgerald wrote a letter to his friend regarding hazing at Princeton University.
A neat find while cruising some ABAA search results: the Heritage Book Shop has the full text of a bunch of previously unpublished letters by F Scott Fitzgerald, written from Princeton to his childhood friend Elizabeth Clarkson.
Tonight is the cannon rush so if you never hear from me again you'll know I died a freshman.(gentle pathos.) The "horsing" (or hazing) is going on now. Its very foolish. Freshies have to carry their cap in their mouths and by the way our uniforms are some class (not) .
Also, take careful note: it appears Fitzgerald scooped Wayne and Garth on "Not!" by about eight decades. So whenever someone says that, they are quoting a great American novelist.
