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24.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 15413    🔁 4466    💬 654    📌 339

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

10.04.2025 12:32 — 👍 23036    🔁 4751    💬 469    📌 357

Tomorrow I'll try again, but tonight I just have no more fucks to give.

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26.02.2025 02:22 — 👍 331    🔁 83    💬 15    📌 4

Economy crashed? No money in your retirement account? Elon Musk has enough money to be immune from the consequences of his actions, and if it gets tight, he can just live off your social security.

03.02.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You wanted America to be run like a business and now it is: this is called corporate raiding. The executive branch and their unelected goons (Elon Musk and his henchmen who are downloading classified information) will gut everything of value and auction off the rest to the highest bidder (Russia?).

03.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some folks thought this election was like sports teams: you root for your team, I root for mine. But this election was about the American Bill of Rights and Constitution vs. the billionaires. America lost.

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