"Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?"Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner.Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders' is a cheeky story in the vein of American short story writer O. Henry, about the naivety of young love.