Watching Z: The Beginning of Everything, about Zelda Fitzgerald led me to read a bit more about her. I’d attempted to read Zelda’s novel many years ago so I was not unfamiliar with her story – but I hadn’t retained much of it. The TV show was terrible but Zelda’s Wikipedia page made me think. Her Wikipedia page makes a big deal of Zelda’s lack of skill in the domestic arts. There’s a section in which we learn that Zelda didn’t do F. Scott’s laundry and he found all his dirty shirts piled up in a closet. I think we’re meant to find her charmingly inept.
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This is Episode 463
Song: Dirty Laundry
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