More Greatness In Esquire

One of my three favorite personal essays ever, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up", is posted on Esquire's website. It was originally published by that mag in three parts in 1936. This is where Fitzgerald penned two immortal lines:

1) "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

2) "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

(And if you're curious: my other two favorite personal essays are "The White Album" by Joan Didion and "New Year's Eve" by Lester Bangs.)