Yeah. it might have been a reach. There’s a soliloquy about Gatsby’s death: “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”
I was relying too heavily on people knowing that moment in the book.
It’s… honestly haunting when you read it in the context of the novel. My arm hairs are standing on end just revisiting it. The narrator, Nick, might sound cordially distanced, but he's emotionally rocked by all of this. They were really great about understating psychological trauma back in the day.
Yeah. it might have been a reach. There's a soliloquy about Gatsby's death: "He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."
I was relying too heavily on those first three words to sell the comment.
It's... honestly haunting when you read it in the context of the novel. My arm hairs are standing on end just revisiting it. There's no reduction that you could make on the literature that would the story the same. The narrator might seem distanced now, but it was raw as fuck at the time
"He must have looked up at the sky - which was kinda different - and then admired his new lawn."
You can use it for gravel as well. I walked into a quarry recently and pretended to fall into a pile of loose gravel (but then I started covertly shoveling it into my fanny pack).
Boom. Close the zipper on that lock box while some production employees help you out of the gravel and you've secured 1/8500th of what you need for your new driveway. You just have to pull the grift a few more times.
They know my face at the local quarry now, though, which is problematic.
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