American+Dreams

"He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue."

"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-- to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
 * -F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"**

"'They's a fella, newspaper fella near the coast, got a million acres--' Casy looked up quickly, 'Million acres? What in the worl' can he do with a million acres?' 'I dunno. He jus' got. Runs a few cattle. Got guards ever'place to keep folks out. Rides aroun' in a bullet-proof car. I seen pitchers of him. Fat, sof' fella with little mean eyes an' a mouth like a ass-hole. Scairt he's gonna die. Got a million acres an' scairt of dyin'"
 * John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"

William Randolph Hearst, Newspaper Tycoon

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