In many ways, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's life mirrors that of the US economy.
They had a booming social and financial life in the 1920s but suffered terribly in the 1930s and they found themselves destitute, drunk, and no longer productive.
Explanation: we are told by a grave author, a famous French physician, that fish being a prolific diet, there are more children born in Roman Catholic countries about nine months after Lent, than at any other season...