too-often-mentioned

Updated: May 13, 2025

It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned non-chalantly against the first chair. He must have heard of her; he must have been waiting all week, smoking eternal cigarettes beside that portentous, too-often-mentioned first chair. Would they blind-fold her?

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald - Flappers and Philosophers