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"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."
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A few more chapters to various things have been published and amended.This site is such a ghost town now. A real shame it's gone this way.View all Conversations
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TGIF
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Mike Burbank, fresh out of college, believes that a cheery smile and bottomless drawer of fun socks is enough...
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The Ducks of San Sebastian
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There's no such thing as summer vacation at Heller High School, which its students have turned into a Silicon...
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The Mechanical Muse
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College student Chris Marley agrees to help an enigmatic professor test a cutting-edge AI tool, but discovers...
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