"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
"...trees that had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams."
"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
"Her grey eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her."
"He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the light was upon the barely-formed grass."
(Do pardon me if they aren't perfect quotes, I didn't check the book.)
I love The Great Gatsby! My favourite of the three H2 texts. Gatsby, and that unquenchable optimism of his that borders on naivity, are so memorable and endearing. The H1 paper wasn't too good, halfway during the unseen question, when I was stuck, I had the irresistable urge to go and read the other extracts, from the books that other schools did. Luckily, the urge wasn't as irresistable as I'd feared.
The unseen question was answered so-so, there wasn't anything special about it =( the Great Expectations essay was satisfactorily done. The Duchess essay, horror of horrors, was unfinished! Managed to squeeze out 2 sides in 30 mins, thankfully it's the last essay so the examiner won't have a bad impression when he/she starts marking.
I'm looking forward to the H2 paper! It should be quite enjoyable.
"It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out further... And one fine morning -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
[Someone posted a comment on an entry I'd written last year, thanking me for it. That made me happy.]
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