I didn’t have my Scarlett moment: ”As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I decided that I was going to do what I could to never be poor again.

When I was going to college, I experienced frequent bouts of poverty, not Grapes of Wrath poverty, but I certainly had many moments where all the money I had in the world was jingling in my pocket.and not very loudly. People who are able to focus all their brain power on one desire become very cunning in the narrow focus of achieving their goal.ĭorothy, played so well by Jane Russell in the movie, is attracted to a different sort of man than Lorelei. She is pretty, but not just pretty, she is a vava voom beauty.Īnd as Dorothy says in the quote at the beginning of this review, Lorelei Lee has an unusual mind, a brain that on the surface seems as vibrant as a bag of hammers, but as I read her diary, the more I start to understand that she has a single minded purpose. Lorelei Lee from Little Rock is one of those mysteries of nature. Genetics are puzzling and unpredictable, sometimes giving unattractive kids to attractive parents or cherubs to parents who are mystified how symmetrical features ever found their way into their family tree. It can appear in blue stocking families, or come from hard working blue collar families, or it can even occur in a trailer trash family from Little Rock, Arkansas. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouraged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.”īeauty can be born just about anywhere. Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really thought my brains were a miracle. ”So when I got through telling Dorothy what I thought up. Including Edith Wharton who dubbed it 'the great American novel.' The book earned the praise of many writers By the time of Loos' death in 1981, the work had been printed in over 85 editions and had been adapted into a popular comic strip, aġ926 silent comedy, a 1949 Broadway musical, and a 1953 film adaptation of the latter musical. Although dismissed by critics as 'too light in texture to be very enduring,' Loos' book was a runawayīest seller, becoming the second-best selling title of 1926, and printed throughout the world in over thirteen different languages, includingĬhinese.

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