He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher - shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before."
Have you read the Double Bind?? I highly recommend it if you like the Great Gazby. It's somewhat of a sequel in modern times :)
ReplyDeletegreat gatsby- one of my favorite books of all time.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, beautiful book...my favorite line is something about careless people smashing up other peoples lives and then moving on... Amazing.
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