“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.” MadeMomentsAgeAmericaFallNovelBearsTransformationJazzExcellenceEdgesManifestDeclineHarbingerJazz Age Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
“No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.” MenShouldMadeMatterPastLawNaturalGreaterCreationReturnEternalAll ThingsClaimsRhythmDeclineStemEmpoweredNatural Law Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy