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Offline SirMystiq

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« on: December 03, 2003, 07:33:40 PM »
Ok what does "So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line...." mean?

What time of the year do you think it is?

also what does the phrase "her hands cold with jewels" mean to you?
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2003, 07:46:38 PM »
Do your own homework.  :p

I graduated High School for a reason... so that I wouldn\'t have to answer stupid questions like this anymore.  ;)
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2003, 07:52:22 PM »
I think about that all of the time.  I don\'t have to know what long mistical lines mean in literature.  And you know what?  I get paid the same.
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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2003, 08:08:17 PM »
ITS NOT HOMEWORK....

I was just reading this book, which just happens to be required for my class. And I was just wondering.
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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2003, 08:15:39 PM »
First line means it was dry.  Or so I assume.
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2003, 09:18:03 PM »
"her hands cold with jewels"

ghetto translation;
She was rock\'n the ice.....bling bling
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2003, 09:25:00 PM »
brittle leaves, wind, stiff clothes maybe implying COLD (not frozen)

gotta be autumn
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« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2003, 10:06:17 PM »
I still think that book is incredibly overrated... It\'s only widely recognized because it was the first to have unvieled the true dark shadow of the "roaring twenties".
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« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2003, 12:42:47 AM »
I remember reading this book in my junior English class and watching a video of it.  I didn\'t really understand the movie but the ending is sad.  A mechanic I believe wife\'s was killed by accident by Gatsby.  His wife left the mechanic because she wanted to be with rich guy like Gatsby.  When she died, the mechanic got outta control and killed Gatsby and then took his life.
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2003, 03:53:16 AM »
i read this book like 2-3 years ago.

It has something to do with her personality.
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2003, 06:26:04 AM »
The money and chivalrous life has hardened her into a gold digging robot.
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2003, 12:49:01 PM »
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I still think that book is incredibly overrated... It\'s only widely recognized because it was the first to have unvieled the true dark shadow of the "roaring twenties".


You could have just said "It sucked".
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2003, 12:58:45 PM »
it\'s autumn and someone is burning leaves... hence the blue smoke.  And the clothes "wind blew the clothes stiff on the line" means it\'s really windy and the clothes on the clothes line are being blown nearly horizontal.






Or maybe not
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« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2003, 09:23:37 PM »
Those who said it was fall...you were right!!!

The Great Gatsby movie was horrible. Especially when compared with the novel.
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« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2003, 11:06:18 PM »
You know what, I have never understood why they teach this stuff. How does this really effect what you will make in life?

Don\'t tell me that it is because you may want to persue a career as a writer - because chances are, if you wanted to be an author, you would already be interested in this stuff and wouldn\'t be forced to read it.

Teach the kids something they need to know. How to feel out a 401k form, how to flip burgers and how to live a medicore life that will end in misery, most likely. Now that is preparing them for the world!
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