“Then me too in Paris for the last two weeks, to see if the Paris of Hemingway and the Paris of Scott Fitzgerald (they were not the same ones; they merely used the same room) had vanished completely or not too.”

Charles Mallinson in Ch. 9. The date is summer 1938.
The Mansion (1959)

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American writer 1897–1962

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