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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Austen and the Bronte sisters can retroactively invent flight so they can plummet into the ocean together, so I agree with you there. (And Boston University claims I'm qualified to speak on this matter, so F YOU pre-Victorian lit) And so that it's not all females, Nathaniel Hawthorne can be the steward on that flight into the abyss.
The pointlessness of the Great Gatsby is part of the author's intent, so if it's a turnoff, then obviously that's going to affect greatly your enjoyment - and let's face it, literature is amazingly subjective, so it's all good.
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Yeah I know, it's like art. You like what you like. Well it
is art really.
And while I get that the pointlessness was part of the point I found the point of pointlessness pointless. I think.