Episode 1: Once again to Zelda

F. Scott Fitzgerald's tender dedication to his wife, muse, and sparring partner

Once again
to Zelda

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”

Thomas Parke d’Invilliers

Editor’s note

Of his wife Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “I love her, and that is the beginning and end of everything.” It is no surprise, then, th…