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I just started reading The Beautiful and Damned. I really enjoyed the Great Gatsby. I'm not understanding this one line from the book. It's on the first page: " two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day..." What is irony? What does "the Holy Ghost of this later day" mean? Thank you so much!
Gilbert Pilz People used to think of the Holy Ghost as inhabiting nearly everything. It's presence was everywhere and it was moving everything around from within. …morePeople used to think of the Holy Ghost as inhabiting nearly everything. It's presence was everywhere and it was moving everything around from within. "The Holy Ghost of this later day ..." is saying that this sense of the Holy Ghost has been replaced by the presence of irony; irony is now controlling everything.(less)
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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