Gatsby

[James Robertson]

P was a huge fan of FSF as was Farina a huge Hemingway fan, acc. to intro
to Been Down ...

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gatsby doesn't make good film material because Mr. Gatsby is not very
> interesting on film or on stage, or even, in the book.  He is
> beautiful in how the narrator makes him and all that floats in his
> wake. Fitzgerald has a wonder stick, a magical way with words, with
> light and with shades and with color. The book is a period novella but
> for the prose, those brilliant flashes, those shutters, the light
> through the girders.  But it is Pynchon in its deeper themes about all
> those westerners come east from hardware money to software money, from
> the tangible to the intangible exchanges.
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Congratulations!  Now you can watch all four movie adaptations (though
> > the 1st is a lost film, so you can' only watch the trailer). Five if
> > you count G (2002).  Then there's the teevee one ...
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> I've just this minute finished reading Gatsby for the first time...
> >>
> >>
> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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