FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS

Flappers
and
Philosophers.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920.

[The text follows the fourth 1920 printing of the Charles Scribner’s Sons edition. ]

To
Zelda

The Offshore Pirate.

The Saturday Evening Post (29 May 1920)

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea—if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About half-way between the Florida shore and the golden collar a white steam-yacht, very young and graceful, was riding at anch……