More on Z and another female character
From page 161 of the text of the novel about Zelda Fitzgerald told in the first person:
“During that week of crossing the Atlantic, I encouraged Scott to spend his time doing whatever he liked. “Go socialize,” I told him over a lunch of poached salmon and boiled potatoes.”
A few thoughts. This line implies the couple may have had a slightly open marriage. I don’t think Scott was entirely decadent. He was a very productive writer and basically a moralist, but I think most of his fiction is based on his social experiences. Also, I think it very difficult to write a historical novel like this. How could you ever know you are accurate about someone else’s life?
On another matter, for a month or two last year I tried to redevelop a childhood hobby of reading comic books. One I picked up was about “Red Sonja,” a voluptuous woman who fights aliens (there was a “B” movie made about the character in the 1980s). But I have basically stopped again now.
I think some graphic novels have literary merit for adults, but some of the shorter works just seem silly or even like animated pornography. Animated porn is a genre in Japan called hentai. But with Hollywood having made so many so many successful films based on comic-book characters in the past few decades, comic books have become a modern mythology.