F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart."
Oh! For a minute there, I saw "nimble," and I was flummoxed. But nibble .... I can picture that. Nibble at the edge ... The "stale ide…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart."
Oh! For a minute there, I saw "nimble," and I was flummoxed. But nibble .... I can picture that. Nibble at the edge ... The "stale ide…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Smoking meant a lot to her sometimes."
"She worked very hard and it had some ability to rest and relax her psychologically. She was a widow and she had no close relatives to write to …
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A breeze stirred the gray haze of Daisy’s fur collar."
Very little going on in the action here. A tiny wind creates a bit of motion in a small subsection of the lady's clothing. But poetically — in th…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees..."
"... he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Beauty and the Beast... Loneliness... Old Grocery Horse... Brook’n Bridge...."
That's it! That's today's sentence from "The Great Gatsby" — taken out of context. That is really out of context. It's im…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
That's today's "Gatsby" sentence. Amount/can challenge/what . That's the subject/predicate/object. The most important word is h…
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