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Tonight, I will be reading a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

The Sensible Thing.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

1.

At the great American lunch hour, young George O'Kelly, straightened his desk deliberately

and with an assumed air of interest.

No one in the office must know that he was in a hurry, for success is a matter of atmosphere,

and it is not well to advertise the fact that your mind is separated from your work by a distance

of 700 miles.

Once out of the building, he set his teeth and began to run,

glancing now and then at the noon of early spring,

which filled Times Square, and loitered less than 20 feet over the heads of the crowd.

The crowd all looked slightly upward and took deep march breaths, and the sun dazzled their

eyes so that scarcely anyone saw anyone else, but only their own reflection on the sky.

George O'Kelly, whose mind was over 700 miles away, thought that all outdoors was horrible.

He rushed into the subway, and for 95 blocks bent a frenzied glance on a car card,

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