Elaboration, With Possible Juxtaposition
Right now, we have perhaps half an inch of snow on the ground topped with sleet/refreezing rain mix. Which means that unless something drastic happens I'll probably spend both Saturday and Sunday completely in the confines of Rather Manor. But I did enough travel on the Mountain Home jaunt Friday to make up for it.
Since Dad found the copy of The Great Gatsby my thought was to have it to read in the waiting rooms of the hospital. Only I realized how familiar I happen to be with the book, and only felt the need to skim a couple dozen or so places. Read it the first time in High School, then again, likely in a break between summer terms or after I graduated college. Saw the Robert Redford movie at least once that I can recall.
The bizarre alternative fiction recesses of my mind played with the possibility of a revisionist antithesis story, one in which Gatsby comes straight back to Daisy after the Great War and forgoes his meteoric rise of vainglory. Would Daisy marry him, or keep looking for a Tom Buchanan? Would Jordan steal him from Daisy and ruin him? Something tells me somebody else had this idea first.
I may work on the final chapter of Chillin' Out soon...well over ten years after I started it. I guess I was spurred on...Gatsby had a hand in it...but so did other things. More To Come.
Since Dad found the copy of The Great Gatsby my thought was to have it to read in the waiting rooms of the hospital. Only I realized how familiar I happen to be with the book, and only felt the need to skim a couple dozen or so places. Read it the first time in High School, then again, likely in a break between summer terms or after I graduated college. Saw the Robert Redford movie at least once that I can recall.
The bizarre alternative fiction recesses of my mind played with the possibility of a revisionist antithesis story, one in which Gatsby comes straight back to Daisy after the Great War and forgoes his meteoric rise of vainglory. Would Daisy marry him, or keep looking for a Tom Buchanan? Would Jordan steal him from Daisy and ruin him? Something tells me somebody else had this idea first.
I may work on the final chapter of Chillin' Out soon...well over ten years after I started it. I guess I was spurred on...Gatsby had a hand in it...but so did other things. More To Come.