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Tonight, I will be continuing the story This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

Code of the Young Egotist

Before he was summoned back to Lake Geneva

He had appeared, shy but inwardly glowing

In his first long trousers set off by a purple accordion tie,

and a Belmont collar with the edges unassailably meeting, purple socks, and handkerchief

with a purple border peeping from his breast pocket. But more than that, he had formulated his

first philosophy, a code to live by, which, as

nears it can be named, was a sort of aristocratic egotism.

He had realized that his best interests were bound up with those of a certain variant, changing

person, whose label, in order that his past might always be identified with him,

was Amory Blaine.

Amory marked himself a fortunate youth, capable of infinite expansion for good or evil.

He did not consider himself a strong character, but relied on his facility, learn things sort of quick,

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