Re-reading Gatsby and I can’t imagine why this line stood out:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Have been reading about Fitzgerald’s real-life experience in a situation which closely mirrors Gatsby…
“They were careless people, Trump and Elon —they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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And for those re-reading it, I say, FANTASTIC as you are bringing more life experience to the novel, so you will understand it better. BUT as I used to tell my
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"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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Those words came to mind immediately on seeing Jared&Ivanka.
It was a daily whirlwind of partying which was expensive.
Sometimes they would go to the country & I realized it was to save money.
At a garden party, an older man and I were talking. He told me a secret.
I would have been ok with the ambiguity.
"Zup Daisy"
I loved The Great Gatsby 📚
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The more you think about that, the more damning.
And the maxim of the rich, from Wolfe’s Bonfire Of The Vanities: “Insulate. Insulate. Insulate.”
Sarah Wynn-Williams’s insider account of her time at Facebook.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/books/great-gatsby-quote-trump.html
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-gilded-age-mckinley-grover-cleveland-1592dab80ad7159266db51b5baa774b6