Gatsby

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 19:57:44 CST 2015


... to the point where they'd tool around the Cornell campus (?)
dressed as 'em, even, or so it sez ...

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:14 PM, James Robertson
<james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
> P was a huge fan of FSF as was Farina a huge Hemingway fan, acc. to intro to
> Been Down ...
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> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> 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> wrote:
>> >> I've just this minute finished reading Gatsby for the first time...
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>> >>
>> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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