A (Bad) Father's Day
The Not-So-Great Dadsby: Fitzgerald Disses His Daughter
As we celebrate all the great dads out there, it might make your pop shine even brighter if you compare him to F. Scott Fitzgerald--the acclaimed novelist and notorious drunk--who wrote this loving missive to his 16-year-old daughter back in 1938:
“To sum up: what you have done to please me or make me proud is practically negligible since the time you made yourself a good diver at camp . . . When I do not feel you are ‘going somewhere,’ your company tends to depress me for the silly waste and triviality involved.”
(FromMore Bad Days in History: The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues
As we celebrate all the great dads out there, it might make your pop shine even brighter if you compare him to F. Scott Fitzgerald--the acclaimed novelist and notorious drunk--who wrote this loving missive to his 16-year-old daughter back in 1938:
“To sum up: what you have done to please me or make me proud is practically negligible since the time you made yourself a good diver at camp . . . When I do not feel you are ‘going somewhere,’ your company tends to depress me for the silly waste and triviality involved.”
(FromMore Bad Days in History: The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues
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