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  • Writer: Jared Martin
    Jared Martin
  • Sep 28
  • 1 min read

"He woke upon a fine fall day--football weather."


-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited


(I was surprised to find this phrase in Fitzgerald's work. I would have expected it to be a little more recently introduced to the English language than 1930, and not by one of the most prominent American authors. But there it is: football weather. Fitzgerald was a real one.)

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