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    Babylon Revisited
    Babylon Revisited
    Babylon Revisited
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    Babylon Revisited

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    "Babylon Revisited" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1930 and first published on February 21, 1931 in the "Saturday Evening Post" and free inside "The Telegraph", the following Saturday. It was later adapted into a movie called "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoD E-Short
    Release dateMar 10, 2015
    ISBN9783734773358
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

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      "Babylon Revisited" is a ghost story. And the best short story ever written. I am not kidding! I would never do that.There's this beautiful bit about how the guy imagines his dead wife on a swing, swinging faster and faster, like a pendulum, and it makes it seem as if time is going faster and faster, which it is. No more bull market. This guy loses everything in the end. This always seems to happen to Fitzgerald’s characters, poor kittens.

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    Babylon Revisited - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    I

    And where's Mr. Campbell? Charlie asked.

    Gone to Switzerland. Mr. Campbell's a pretty sick man, Mr. Wales.

    I'm sorry to hear that. And George Hardt? Charlie inquired.

    Back in America, gone to work.

    And where is the Snow Bird?

    He was in here last week. Anyway, his friend, Mr. Schaeffer, is in Paris.

    Two familiar names from the long list of a year and a half ago. Charlie scribbled an address in his notebook and tore out the page.

    If you see Mr. Schaeffer, give him this, he said. It's my brother-in-law's address. I haven't settled on a hotel yet.

    He was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more--he felt polite in it, and not as if he owned it. It had gone back into France. He felt the stillness from the moment he got out of the taxi and saw the doorman, usually in a frenzy of activity at this hour, gossiping with a chasseur by the servants' entrance.

    Passing through the corridor, he heard only a single, bored voice in the once-clamorous women's room. When he turned into the bar he travelled the twenty feet of green carpet with his eyes fixed straight ahead by old habit; and then, with his foot firmly on the rail, he turned and surveyed the room, encountering only a single pair of eyes that fluttered up from a newspaper in the corner. Charlie asked for the head barman, Paul, who in the latter days of the bull market had come to work in his own custom-built car--disembarking, however, with due nicety at the nearest corner. But Paul was at his country house today and Alix giving him information.

    No, no more, Charlie said, I'm going slow these days.

    Alix congratulated him: You were going pretty strong a couple of years ago.

    I'll stick to it all right, Charlie assured him. I've stuck to it for over a year and a half now.

    "How do you find conditions in

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