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[[Image:Bittersweet.jpg|center|635px|"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from Noel Coward's ''Bitter Sweet'', Act 3, Scene 1. Courtesy of British Pathé.]] | [[Image:Bittersweet.jpg|center|635px|"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from Noel Coward's ''Bitter Sweet'', Act 3, Scene 1. Courtesy of British Pathé.]] | ||
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| + | :My dear boy, on thirty-five dollars a week I am living at a hotel which is luxurious and delightful; I see one or two plays (from the upper balcony, it is true, but I don't have to smell the actors to appreciate the play); I dine with several different people each week, choosing those who I feel most like talking at; I visit those ultra ultra spots where drinks cost a dollar each (though I get only one or two) and the like of which is nowhere else in this unfair country. You would have a delightful time here with me. | ||
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| + | …You would be stimulated anew by contact with this strange and vital city. It remains elixir to me. It is inexhaustible. <ref>Leo Adams to Merle Macbain, January 2, 1932. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (Hereafter cited by name and date only).</ref> | ||
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- My dear boy, on thirty-five dollars a week I am living at a hotel which is luxurious and delightful; I see one or two plays (from the upper balcony, it is true, but I don't have to smell the actors to appreciate the play); I dine with several different people each week, choosing those who I feel most like talking at; I visit those ultra ultra spots where drinks cost a dollar each (though I get only one or two) and the like of which is nowhere else in this unfair country. You would have a delightful time here with me.
…You would be stimulated anew by contact with this strange and vital city. It remains elixir to me. It is inexhaustible. [1]
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- ↑ Leo Adams to Merle Macbain, January 2, 1932. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (Hereafter cited by name and date only).
