Hedonism/ Religion Flashcards
“The giant eyes…
Of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil”
“Like silver…
Idols weighing down their own white dresses”
They were careless
People, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together”
“Enough coloured lights…
To make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden”
“Five crates of oranges and lemons”
“We would all go home…
and meet next week and rob somebody and kill some people… but all the boys said it would be wicked to do it on a Sunday”
“He said he reckoned…
a body could reform the ole man with a shot-gun, maybe, but he didn’t know no other way”
“Only it’s on…
account of the feud”
“I don’t know”
“The men took
their guns along… all about brotherly love”
“First they done a lecture…
On temperance, but they didn’t make enough for them both to get drunk on”
“I about made up my mind
To pray; and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was, and be better”
“All right then, I’ll
Go to hell”
