The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from h…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)
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