180 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the following: “Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath it sour; every evil, its good… For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain you lose something.
Brilliant. And I love F Scott and am so interested to learn he had that level of self-criticism. Encouraging.
Genuine, authentic, meaningful writing without AI or fake followers still means something. I hope.