What I was Thinking Sinking to the Bottom of That Pool

February 13, 2018

Dear Old Sport,

I am one of the

few honest people that I have ever known,

but I am slow thinking and

full of rules that act as brakes

on my desires;

most affectations conceal something eventually,

even though they don't in the beginning.

There are only the pursued,

the pursuing,

the busy,

and the tired.

And

I had no girl whose

disembodied face

floated along the dark cornices

filled with faces dead and gone.

And for some reason it was the gloomiest part of my day.

Under different circumstances that

conversation might have been

one of the crises of my life:

I was going to

enter into their lives,

and no one would ever

know or disapprove.

Signed,

Jay Gatsby

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