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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (1925)

Knowledge = Power

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Gatsby and the Officer in the White Car

"It wasn't until then that I connected this Gatsby with the officer in her white car,'" she writes. "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder "'and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner"' The next day he sent for Daisy at his dance, 'and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it' He wanted a luncheon in New York, but when Baker said they were friends of Tom O'Hara "(he) started to abandon the whole idea." She later wrote about him: "He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless funder'"

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