Gatsby Great?

 F Scott Fitzgerald. Another of the totally screwed up Americans coming and going in the first half of the 20th century. He hit big a couple times. Was it timing? The right place at the right time? What say you? 

"And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

 Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Thus ends a superb novel by F Scott Fitzgerald an early 20th century author who was both a literary genius and a totally self destructive insane train wreck of a man. His book The Great Gatsby while written in 20's America, still rings true about people today. If you get a chance at least watch the movie (several versions, my favorite is the Baz Luhrman one) and then read the book. It is powerful and it really gets to the core of who we are are as people, how we live, love and survive (or not). Check it out.

Be good to each other,

Peace out.

Great Thought...

 

Difficulty. Wouldn’t it be great if I could write something that took more than 15 minutes of my attention. 

I never have. I never will. 

Such is the true meaning of life for a man with the attention span of a gnat. 

Of course I’ve never read anything of any consequence from any gnats. Maybe their works are out there. I can’t say I know anything of them. 

Fin