~Your Way and Mine-1

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Complete Works 2023 words 2020-12-31 09:05:55

Your Way and Mine.

Woman’s Home Companion (May 1927)

One spring afternoon in the first year of the present century a young man was experimenting with a new typewriter in a brokerage office on lower Broadway. At his elbow lay an eight-line letter and he was endeavoring to make a copy on the machine but each attempt was marred by a monstrous capital rising unexpectedly in the middle of a word or by the disconcerting intrusion of some symbol such as $ or % into an alphabet whose membership was set at twenty-six many years ago. Whenever he detected a mistake he made a new beginning with a fresh sheet but after the fifteenth try he was aware of a ferocious instinct to cast the machine from the window.

The young man’s short blunt fingers were too big for the keys. He was big all over; indeed his bu……

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