NickCarraway
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he shut the windows & the caught wind died out about the room & the curtains & the rugs and the 2 young women ballooned slowly to the floor
9:23 PM Nov 30th
from web
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foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men
9:13 PM Nov 23rd
from Twitscoop
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He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must
have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
11:17 AM Nov 21st
from web
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It faced or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant, & then concentrated on YOU with an irresistible prejudice in your favor
7:46 PM Nov 20th
from web
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I have an idea that [he] himself didn't believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared.
11:01 AM Nov 17th
from web
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.. ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . like that ashen figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
4:56 PM Nov 16th
from web
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the blocks of the sidewalk formed a ladder ... if he climbed alone, once there he could gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
1:09 PM Nov 14th
from Twitscoop
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... her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window
5:16 PM Nov 12th
from Twitscoop
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[her] house had always seemed to him more mysterious than other houses so his
idea of the city itself, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty
6:08 PM Nov 11th
from Twitscoop
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stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night ...
12:31 AM Nov 11th
from Twitscoop
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stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him.
10:57 AM Nov 4th
from Twitscoop
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... the sun which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.
3:23 PM Nov 2nd
from Twitscoop
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Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's
voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of
pain.
8:54 AM Oct 29th
from web
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now the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
10:15 PM Oct 26th
from web
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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere & then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away
2:40 PM Oct 24th
from Twitscoop
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... there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
3:02 PM Oct 20th
from web
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The wind had blown off leaving a loud bright night w/a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
12:28 AM Oct 17th
from web
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some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens and then sank down himself into eternal blindness
8:06 PM Oct 12th
from web
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... was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off.
11:22 PM Oct 8th
from Twitscoop
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One autumn night, when the leaves were falling, .. they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.
9:52 PM Oct 7th
from Tweetie
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- Name Nick Carraway
- Location West Egg, New York
- Web http://DieBig.com
- Bio finds himself in a yet more duplicitous world
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