Artistic licence

All that you can’t even own

“The very rich are different from you and me,” F Scott Fitzgerald is supposed to have said to Ernest Hemingway. “Of course they are, you bloody fool,” Hemingway replied. “They have more money.” We’re supposed to think that Hemingway got the better of this little exchange, but I’ve always thought it was Fitzgerald who was on to something. After all, the very rich certainly are different from ...