Apocalypse Now | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:29:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Successful Gesture https://www.thesmartset.com/the-successful-gesture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-successful-gesture https://www.thesmartset.com/the-successful-gesture/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64294 There’s a line in The Great Gatsby that took me by surprise when I first read it in high school, and I’ve been puzzling over it ever since. Early on, the fictional narrator Nick Carraway is thinking about what makes Gatsby special. He wonders “if personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures” which seemed […]

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