The Great Gatsby

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, strech out our arms farther... And one fine morning -

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, 1925 - Scott Fitzgerald 



Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no futuro orgástico que ano a no recua à nossa frente. Ele nos escapara então, mas isto não importava - amanhã corremos mais rápido, estenderemos mais adiante nossos braços... E numa bela manhã -

E assim prosseguimos, barcos contra a corrente, arrastados incessantemente para o passado.

O Grande Gatsby, tradução de Roberto Muggiati (ed. Record, 2013)

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Shakespeare, Macbeth / Inspiração para Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury, 1929