Selections from the novel in support of my case:
"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
"One thing's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get - children."
"Her voice is full of money."
"I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."
"It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes."
"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
"For a moment, the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened--then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
3 comments:
Oh yes! My favorite:
"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year...."
I read most of The Last Tycoon on the plane ride home and was blown away, despite its unfinished status.
Yes! It's just such fine writing and that first paragraph:
"Though I haven't ever been on the screen I was brought up in pictures. Rudolf Valentino came to my fifth birthday party--or so I was told. I put this down only to indicate that even before the age of reason I was in a position to watch the wheels go round."
How could you not keep reading after that, it's so good. SKL, I have extra copies if you want one still.
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