During Florence's studies at Columbia, She mentions that her friend Gertrude would someday marry poet/writer Delmore Schwartz. It is spoken of off-handedly enough to be easily forgotten, but the description of his most famous story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities", is harder to forget or ignore. Here's the essential outline of this short masterpiece:
The story tells of an unnamed young man who has a dream that he is in an old-fashioned movie theater in 1909. As he sits down to watch the film, he starts to realize that it is a motion picture documenting his parents' courtship...
Care to continue? Here is a PDF link to this wonderful story, written by Delmore when he was only twenty-one years old ...
Interesting fun fact: Delmore Schwartz was the man who inspired Lou Reed as a writer, before he founded the proto-punk band, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. One of his most famous songs, EUROPEAN SON, was dedicated to Delmore. Many critics posited reasons why, until Lou Reed finally admitted that Delmore Schwartz once told him that the worst thing about rock 'n roll was the lyrics: EUROPEAN SON, a seven minutes song had, in deference to Schwartz's, only one short verse:
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