“I Am Essentially Marxian” and Other Notes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks

1. D. H. Lawrence great attempt to synthesize animal and emotional—things he left out. Essential pre-Marxian. Just as I am essentially Marxian.
2. When Whitman said “Oh Pioneers” he said all.
3. Byron’s mountains warm.
4. Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
5. Work out my hard luck season—my most productive seasons, etc
6. Conrad’s secret theory examined.He knew that things do transpire about people. Therefore he wrote the truth and transposed it to parallel to give that quality, adding confusion however to his structure. Nevertheless there is in his scheme a desire to imitate life which is in all the big shots. Have I such an idea in the composition of this book?
7. Conrad influenced by Man Without a Country
8. No English painting because of their putting everything into words.
9. List of Zelda’s faults and virtues as a writer.
10. Chapter in slow motion.
11. Right to Pretty heroines
12. Tie up with Faulkner—Lord Fauntleroy.

–From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Notebooks.