Clare Snow’s Reviews > Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby > Status Update
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"The Great Gatsby emerges from a world strewn with wreckage and that debris is the novel's material - sullied, but with the hope of something redeemable glinting among the ash heaps."
— Mar 01, 2026 05:44AM
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Clare Snow
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Mrs Gibson "wouldn't be the only unreliable narrator in the story." So annoying when your neighbour disputes your location "at the hour the pig-raising Amazon says she was astride her mule watching the double killing."
Pig-raising Amazon is my new fav epithet
— Mar 18, 2026 05:09AM
Pig-raising Amazon is my new fav epithet
Clare Snow
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"The Truth - an absolute concern in theory, yet so intricate and extensive as to be comprehended by no one." - The New York Tribune, 6 Aug 1922
— Mar 18, 2026 04:58AM
Clare Snow
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"We do love the centre of things. You feel the motion so much less." - Zelda Fitzgerald
— Mar 18, 2026 04:41AM
Clare Snow
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"Old words burn through stories like new gold."
— Mar 18, 2026 04:17AM
Clare Snow
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"It is worth listening for the music in the very heart of the noise."
— Mar 15, 2026 06:29AM
Clare Snow
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"I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City
— Mar 14, 2026 12:20AM
Clare Snow
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"Books kept leading women astray, it seemed."
— Mar 14, 2026 12:09AM
Clare Snow
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"It was customary to give two dollars to the cabdriver if you threw up in his cab."
Was more alcohol consumed during Prohibition than at any other time in history?
— Mar 13, 2026 11:38PM
Was more alcohol consumed during Prohibition than at any other time in history?
