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(Mere words, yet they took me to some kind of dream land; and when I fell asleep, they came back as a dream in a desert where diamonds fell like feathers from the sky) "The Diamond as Big as The Ritz" (Tales of The Jazz Age, 1922) (...) 'After supper they folded up the... more
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Rated by helderdarocha on Mar 31 2009, 7:52am
(Mere words, yet they took me to some kind of dream land; and when I fell asleep, they came back as a dream in a desert where diamonds fell like feathers from the sky) "The Diamond as Big as The Ritz" (Tales of The Jazz Age, 1922) (...) 'After supper they folded up the table-cloth and spread their blankets for the night. "What a dream it was," Kismine sighed, gazing up at the stars. "How strange it seems to be here with one dress and a penniless fiance ! "Under the stars," she repeated. "I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth." "It was a dream," said John quietly. "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." "How pleasant then to be insane ! " "So I'm told," said John gloomily. "I don't know any longer. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. Well, I have that last and I will make the usual nothing of it." He shivered. "Turn up your coat collar, little girl, the night's full of chill and you'll get pneumonia. His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours." So wrapping himself in his blanket he fell off to sleep.'
