Update on F. Scott Fitzgerald. While I couldn't get into his stories much.....can't really identify with the class of people he wrote about, I finally found out why one of my favorite authors, H.S. Thompson, when a young, aspiring writer, physically copied word for word, on his typewriter, The Great Gatsby. Just to learn how the flow worked.
I think it was in Fitzgerald's story Winter Dreams. Some of the paragraphs were mind blowing, how beautiful they were.