Gatsby copper millionaire

The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.

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Gatsby, torn mouth

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long. 

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Gatsby's wet snaky underwear

The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.

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Gatsby, gray cars

Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight. 

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Gatsby, beauty, beast

Beauty and the Beast … Loneliness … Old Grocery Horse … Brook'n Bridge … 

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Gatsby El Greco sentence

I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under sullen, overhanging sky and a lusterless moon.

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