Lois is engulfed in Hollywood glory. But it is gaudy, tawdry and mocking, both of Scott’s endeavours as a writer, and Zelda’s as a ballerina.

Lois and company
A girl of previous purity
My manor mild and meek
Got plucked from near obscurity
By a dark-eyed desert sheik

He whispered “if you marry me
I’ll pay your weight in gold”
His eunuchs came to carry me
And in a second I was sold

Say hello to Babylon
Take me up the Nile
Slip the gilded shackles on
Lock me up in style

I feel just like the queen of Sheba
Not that amoeba
Back home in little rock Arkansas