Clare Snow’s Reviews > Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby > Status Update

Even Fitz loves the pig lady!

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

"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

"We do love the centre of things. You feel the motion so much less." - Zelda Fitzgerald

"Old words burn through stories like new gold."

"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

"Books kept leading women astray, it seemed."

"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?

I think Dr Long was drunk, everyone else is

"He had two corpses with bullets in their heads. What did it matter how many bullets? They had been shot in the head and they were both dead."

Ah yes, death by being dead