This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.Ĭhapter 2 A valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly.I was rather literary in college and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man." This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men." Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, " just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.Chapter 1 That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
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