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Quotation from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“After the operation Beatrice had a nervous breakdown that bore a suspicious resemblance to delirium tremens”
This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 1 (Project Gutenberg text)
After Amory's emergency appendix operation, the narrator explains why the boy is sent to live with relatives in Minneapolis.
Citation: "After the operation Beatrice had a nervous breakdown that bore a suspicious resemblance to delirium tremens" — F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 1 (Project Gutenberg text). (id this-side-of-paradise-q2)
Portrait: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1929 photo portrait by Nickolas Muray) Cropped, Nickolas Muray, Public domain.
