Comments on: The future behind us http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2010/03/the-future-behind-us.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amit http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2010/03/the-future-behind-us.html#comment-8374 Amit Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:48:14 +0000 http://www.zengestrom.com/?p=823#comment-8374 This is a beautiful read. I mirror your opinion of The Great Gatsby, one of my favourites after the gut-wrenching-finality of "The Grapes of Wrath". I sometimes feel helpless enough to consider evoking Gatsby's destiny as possibly, personal. The dark optimism I do remember from the same book was: <blockquote>For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.</blockquote> This is a beautiful read. I mirror your opinion of The Great Gatsby, one of my favourites after the gut-wrenching-finality of “The Grapes of Wrath”. I sometimes feel helpless enough to consider evoking Gatsby’s destiny as possibly, personal. The dark optimism I do remember from the same book was:

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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