Standing in a Room
May. 20th, 2015 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayI'm standing in a room, I suppose it could be any of the rooms, in Jay Gatsby's Long Island mansion.
I've gotten here by way of Sarah Churchwell's book, her first, entitled Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. It focuses, in a wholly unique way, on the social, cultural, historical milieu which was both the source and, in a sense, the product of Scott Fitzgerald's life and work.
So I'm standing in a room, filled with all the dreams and splendor and idealism and disillusion of Fitzgerald's creation, and totally loving what she's done with it...
LPK
LiveJournal
5.20.2015 (a)
I've gotten here by way of Sarah Churchwell's book, her first, entitled Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. It focuses, in a wholly unique way, on the social, cultural, historical milieu which was both the source and, in a sense, the product of Scott Fitzgerald's life and work.
So I'm standing in a room, filled with all the dreams and splendor and idealism and disillusion of Fitzgerald's creation, and totally loving what she's done with it...
LPK
LiveJournal
5.20.2015 (a)
