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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Fitzgerald & Keats

Green, the symbol of hope-LISTEN. WATCH.  I've long been captivated by Jay Gatsby's green light, "the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us... tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Is it a symbol of hope, futility, perseverance, Sisyphean absurdity, foolish optimism, melioristic pragmatism, all or none of the above? 
The thing about symbols is that they're outer projections of our inner lives and our inchoate aspirations, which are variable and changing. So I'll opt for all, though not all at once... (continues)
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Today is the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald (books by this author), born Francis Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota (1896), who said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
WA

Compare poet John Keats:
...Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason... BP

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