Undiluted Pessimism
"...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. 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. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about ... like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
The Great Gatsby is such a luscious book. This quote from it was too wonderful to not post, regardless of its wholly pessimistic tone.
The Great Gatsby is such a luscious book. This quote from it was too wonderful to not post, regardless of its wholly pessimistic tone.