Month: May 2021

It’s been a while since I’ve done a “sentence modernization” post, so let’s take some excerpts from The Beautiful and Damned and see what happens when we replace every word with more common equivalents. It will be interesting to see…

The Beautiful and the Damned is a snapshot of the roaring twenties, and so it seems more than appropriate that the “most unique” sentence in the book is a description of that era’s extravagant night life: There were opera cloaks…

The Beautiful and Damned is only about a hundred years old, which experience has shown is recent enough to feel more or less like modern English but with different slang. This is reflected in the fact that no words in…

In celebration of The Great Gatsby finally entering the public domain we’ll be looking at one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s earlier and lesser known books: The Beautiful and Damned. It tells the story of a young man and woman who…