Hemingway claimed that Stein first heard the words from a garage owner who had serviced her car, an anecdotal detail that resonates suggestively with the garage scenes in The Great Gatsby.
The author and literary hostess Gertrude Stein, talking with Ernest Hemingway, spoke of a “lost generation” of the young - those who had served in World War I.
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - James Canton 2016 Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars
