
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)
Knowledge = Power
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The Importance of Recovering From the Past
After she had obliterated four years at that sentence, they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that after she was free they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house just as if it were five years ago. And she doesn't understand, he said. She used to be able to understand. He talked a lot about the past,. I gather that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself, perhaps, that had gone into loving daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then; but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing
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