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"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling 'Trimalchio in West Egg,'" Tony Scott writes. "Would we still be talking about it if he had? "But he called it 'The Great Gatsby' and we are."

Mar 28, 2025, 12:17 AM

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