Magnetism - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott

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ISBN 10: 1731331568 ISBN 13: 9781731331564

Publisher: Independently published, 2018

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Magnetism (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):The pleasant, ostentatious boulevard was lined at prosperous intervals with New England Colonial houses without ship models in the hall. When the inhabitants moved out here the ship models had at last been given to the children. The next street was a complete exhibit of the Spanish-bungalow phase of West Coast architecture; while two streets over, the cylindrical windows and round towers of 1897 melancholy antiques which sheltered swamis, yogis, fortune tellers, dressmakers, dancing teachers, art academies and chiropractors looked down now upon brisk buses and trolley cars. A little walk around the block could, if you were feeling old that day, be a discouraging affair.On the green flanks of the modern boulevard children, with their knees marked by the red stains of the mercurochromeera, played with toys with a purpose—beams that taught engineering, soldiers that taught manliness, and dolls that taught motherhood. When the dolls were so banged up that they stopped looking like real babies and began to look like dolls, the children developed affection for them. Everything in the vicinity even the March sunlight—was new, fresh, hopeful and thin, as you would expect in a city that had tripled its population in fifteen years.

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