F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quebec Students

Paul Krugman Dept: But it has all happened before, many times in fact. Larger forces and greedy people are chewing at us like a vagrant on bath salts . We are fearful, largely unread, too lazy to vote, too incoherent to organize as the Quebec students did, we are older than we realized and we look to . . . who? . . . for guidance, according to The Star. Books and music ease the pain. Out of money, out of luck, we turn to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote about class, money and yearning for status in a century we are now replaying. This is a big subject for a novelist and he made it his big subject with a formal perfection admired to this day and it isn t the bad economic and social news that eats at me, it s the eternal sense of novelty with which everyone reacts to it. Hard times that are this crusty, well, it s shocking, I do declare! There s always Paul Krugman, whose measured blog one of the most influential in his nation maps the financial catastrophe using tracing paper from the previous ones, and startlingly breaks the chain with videos of Canada s Arcade Fire and Feist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.