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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Class and culture

"If Gatsby were to come back today, he would come back as Donald Trump and would want a date not with Daisy but with Britney."
I can't substantiate this claim because I like to see Gatsby as chasing a higher ideal, a higher aesthetic. Daisy could never have met Gatsby's picture of her. Gatsby chased after something he could not see.

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