i made this video because i didn't do my assigned reading in high school (which was the great gatsby), then the great gatsby later became one of my favorite books. it seems to me that many readers do not see the darker undercurrents of the work. it is also funny that such a dour indictment of the american dream is almost universally assigned as required reading for teenage students here in the US. i hope you enjoy
I very recently participated in a high school class in which Gatsby was read. I can tell you that while I do think high school readers are fairly conscious of the book being a societal indictment, they seem to think it's exclusively an indictment of American society in its time period. They don't seem to understand its enduring (arguably increasing) relevance.
Gatsby is the quantum death of the American culture. Its decline was apparent, but willingly ignored. The fact that students have it as designated reading it is not ironic, you guys claim to be aware of it, but you are not. To come full circle, they are somewhat ahead of their past counterparts. While in the past people were reluctant to look inside, the young ones today know that cat is there, they just dont care. Dont get me wrong, Gatsby is my favorite novel, because I went through a similar experience when coming back to my native country. The video is also great, but it is unfair to depict the young ones today in an unfair light.
@@triggeringsmuganimepfp7611 So would you say that today's youth are more socially aware but also more apathetic? Also I'm not making any broad arguments about the social cognizance of an age group, I was trying to offer an explanation as to why a public school system would lean so heavily into teaching a book with such a negative view of the American dream.
Thus far, I'm about 20% in, you are putting my feelings about this story into words. I didn't get to read it in school either, but it's one of my favorite stories ever. Short and to the point, great characters, deep story.
The way you narrate and create your videos is incredible. No cheap tricks to fool us to pay attention. Instead, you demand that we pay attention and reward those who decide to put down their phone and follow along. Your videos have an intriguing and almost hypnotizing quality to them. Really glad i found this channel.
IM SO EXCITED TO WATCH this is one of my fav novels with one of the best closing lines ever: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
I have not watched the video yet, but I know that it will be as thought-provoking, as articulate, and as magnificent as all your other videos. I still come back to your "Birds do not Sing in Caves" video often as I find it one of the best videos in the thousands of hours of UA-cam I've idly (and some regrettably) consumed, as I did not follow this trend for your essays. It is an awe-inspiring piece of work that has genuinely helped me these past few months. If I had the money to donate to your patreon, I would. Never stop being a genius Michael.
I used to watch your videos in the height of my training as a naval aircrewman. Your style and nostalgic voice brings me a feeling back to how it was back then. And I am sure to feel this as time only goes further. Thank you.
Under your Poe video I asked if there was any chance of anything on Fitzgerald from you. And here we are. I'm sure there's no correlation ofc. Thank you, Michael.
If Fitzgerald thought the "American Dream" had gone downhill by the 1920s, I wonder when he thought it was at its best. I think the time before the Great Depression was a pretty good time to be alive and symbolizes a good convergence of science and technology. Or maybe the country never really had a time when the "American Dream" was fully alive.
This kind of wondering falls apart if you keep asking "Good for who?" and "In what way was it good?". It's all subjective and relative. The time in which the american dream was greatly benefitting some group of white people gain wealth, it was also oppressing other groups and creating a shitty mindset in the people gainijng wealth from it. We like to make up cartoon ideas and overlay reality with them, fun fantasies of what is and has been and will be.
In my opinion, America's never really had an American Dream, certainly not a fully realized one. The American Dream promises that through great effort and tenacity, even the poorest man can become a greater, wealthier, happier version of himself. To me, it's always seemed pretty naive. Did all the nameless individuals forgotten by history simply not try hard enough? Is that why they failed to become anything "great"? Sure, pre-Great Depression you could say that things were going great in America...if you were white, preferably at least middle-class, living in a great centre of industry such as Detroit, New York or Chicago. What about everyone else? Were there any black men who managed to achieve the American Dream? The millions of farmers across the country, who lived just as their father and his father before him had, had they achieved the Dream? No, I don't think so. I think the American Dream is precisely that: a dream. It's something that only in the twenties did America wake up from, and even then, the persistence of this concept in American culture proves that it's not quite true. "When Jay Gatsby dies, the American Dream dies with him" is something I've heard a lot of people say, but honestly, the American Dream never existed to begin with. It's a fantasy that people kept chasing, maybe for all their life. America's a land of opportunity, yes, but it's a land like all the others. It's not a paradise, it's not a haven, it's (especially in it's current state) barely standing on its own two legs without crumbling, like so many great powers before it. Jay, like so many Americans, lives in illusion. His parties are like Venetian carnevals- everyone's wearing a mask. Including the host. It's a perfect representation of Prohibition- everyone's false, everyone's a gentleman and also a lawbreaker at the same time. They revel in their immorality. They're all perfectly fallible and human.
@pietrocatalano4285 People are story-apes. We always overlay reality with a story we like. The american dream was a powerful one, even being entirely imaginary, it had a massive impact on the world. I wonder what story we're in right now :)
@@pietrocatalano4285the American Dream is way to package up some of America’s core values (Capitalism, rugged individualism, liberalism, expansionism etc.) into one neat package. It goes alongside the other former ideal of manifest destiny during the settler era. It’s quite subjective too, the classic example of the American dream would be the rags to riches story. However, others may personally define it as finding relative stability through hard work.
It was never a good time to be alive for Fitzgerald. He was part of the “lost” generation. Fought in the war, came back home with PTSD, great depression, and your sons die in the next war. The roaring 20’s were fun, sure. But what were they hiding? A generation plastering over their mental wounds with booze and parties. He died of a heart attack, after struggling with alcoholism his whole life, in 1940. I think that says it all.
There are many best channels. There are many best people, best books and best houses. The best of all of these, however, is yet to come. For the best is but in the eye of the beholder, as that allows the formation of the multiple.
Or, whether he intended it or not, The Great Gatsby is a transcendent critique of materialism and the way that greed and concupiscence have destroyed the true American Dream, which was to build a City on a Hill wherein dwelleth righteousness.
I always saw east and west egg as represented the east and west coast of America as well. West coast being more free from classes and has new money while east coast is strong into holding onto class and is old money. Valley of ashes is just the poorer fly over states that the rest of the country looks down on even though they need them for farming and industry
This book is what introduced me to 6 years of studying English Lit. I walked around with it for a whole semester and beyond. A human portrait of a self-fulfilling loss and the death of not just a dream but dreaming itself. Well, I was young! Lol
I remember being made to watch the movie in school but i reeeeally didn't pick up on any of the subtext. I think at that age we just didnt have the awareness to understand it, but now 15 years later watching this video the story seems so rich. Such a shame that as kids we had no interest in it
As someone who can't focus on a single sitting position alone for more than ten seconds, this hour-long video had me glued to my screen and inspired me to read The Great Gatsby that's been rotting in my bookshelf! Thank you for the well-spoken and greatly edited insight into the classic.
New horses lets freaking gooooooooooo. Thank you for all your hard work. Ive really grown as a person from all the new things i discover from your topics. You are a thoughtfull person and may you never go thirsty. I hope that groks.
As a non-native English speaker, this has been so far the only novel I've read in the original English form. The part that I think impacted me the most is the final part, where Gatsby's (alleged) father meets Nick, showing him his notes about building "successful habits". It really shows the fleeting nature of even today's success and the flaws of such an idea
Firstly, I didn’t read this in school either just depended on other kids to get answers. Secondly, that Truslow quote was fascinating to hear. Great work as always.
Hey, I really like your videos and how you've put all the information condensed in a really great way. Is it religio-specific or just any historical event or person who was of great importance?
Just found your channel in my recommended but a video suggestion for you is to look back at the lord of flies. It’s a very thought provoking work to go back on to see how human nature's darker instincts can emerge when alone :)
The quotation of James Truslow Adams at 55:12 struck a chord with me, particularly, "...It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class..." Michael, perhaps it was your intent to convey this, but I perceive this as a statement that stood in its time, albeit imperfectly, except now this micro-axiom has been turned on its head. America, and the American Dream, is now hampered by barriers which have been erected rapidly, in a mere several score of years. It is now Europe, from which our 19th and 20th century immigrants have fled, that has usurped this position from America. We have now effectively traded roles.
Love your work. Your video on Hemingway might be my favorite- if you ever did a video on Hunter S. Thompson, or journalism as a whole I think it would be an incredibly interesting topic in your style!
To add to this after completing the video, in a way Hunter S. Thompson could be seen as a sequel to this thinking on the American dream. It’s the core of what his hit Fear and Loathing is about yet it gets lost amidst the drugs and craze of Thompson’s prose which in turn turned HST into a characture of himself and started a decline in his work. Would be a really interesting continuation of this video
The Valley of Ashes is between the Eggs? That is news to me. Not saying it’s wrong, but having grown up on Long Island and read Gatsby numerous times, I always took the Eggs to be north shore Nassau County, and the VoA to be in Queens-unfashionable “flyover” country best sped through en route to shimmering Manhattan.
Fitzgerald's writing has a dreamy poetic quality which contrasts with the stark events in the novel I always thought that was what made it so riveting.
Holllly Shit, I was feeling really badly about life lately and I realized, (when I saw this upload) it WASNT because I had been watching your content/philosophy, but just life+the world itself
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb to it,if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.” The great American Illusion, even if you are a magnate with the money to buy the whole damned country, only exists in the most unsuspecting moments of fleeting solitude.
I’ve been watching for years and still not a single horse
31:10 Playing Polo
Let’s keep watching until it happens
it was one of the main reason why I subbed.. feeling really let down and depressed as a horse buff
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My favourite part is when Jay says "I'm done horsin' around" and pulls out his Great Gat
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When will it stop.
Dude the morbin time format will never die 😂
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i made this video because i didn't do my assigned reading in high school (which was the great gatsby), then the great gatsby later became one of my favorite books. it seems to me that many readers do not see the darker undercurrents of the work. it is also funny that such a dour indictment of the american dream is almost universally assigned as required reading for teenage students here in the US.
i hope you enjoy
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I very recently participated in a high school class in which Gatsby was read. I can tell you that while I do think high school readers are fairly conscious of the book being a societal indictment, they seem to think it's exclusively an indictment of American society in its time period. They don't seem to understand its enduring (arguably increasing) relevance.
Gatsby is the quantum death of the American culture. Its decline was apparent, but willingly ignored. The fact that students have it as designated reading it is not ironic, you guys claim to be aware of it, but you are not. To come full circle, they are somewhat ahead of their past counterparts.
While in the past people were reluctant to look inside, the young ones today know that cat is there, they just dont care.
Dont get me wrong, Gatsby is my favorite novel, because I went through a similar experience when coming back to my native country. The video is also great, but it is unfair to depict the young ones today in an unfair light.
@@triggeringsmuganimepfp7611 So would you say that today's youth are more socially aware but also more apathetic? Also I'm not making any broad arguments about the social cognizance of an age group, I was trying to offer an explanation as to why a public school system would lean so heavily into teaching a book with such a negative view of the American dream.
Thus far, I'm about 20% in, you are putting my feelings about this story into words. I didn't get to read it in school either, but it's one of my favorite stories ever. Short and to the point, great characters, deep story.
I love the aesthetic of Michael’s videos so much; they’re unlike anything else I’ve seen on UA-cam.
I like his videos, but let's not kid ourselves, there are plenty of videos in a similar style on UA-cam.
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@@othmankamel7206then and now is quite similar, especially their older stuff, spectacles is good as well, although their videos are shorter.
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new horses video has me climbing up the walls and biting at the bars
down boy! get!
You live in a monkey cage too? Hell of a coincidence
every time
The way you narrate and create your videos is incredible. No cheap tricks to fool us to pay attention. Instead, you demand that we pay attention and reward those who decide to put down their phone and follow along. Your videos have an intriguing and almost hypnotizing quality to them. Really glad i found this channel.
IM SO EXCITED TO WATCH this is one of my fav novels with one of the best closing lines ever: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
I’m so locked in
no more horsing around
nah for real tho....
RIGHT?
REAL 🗣️🗣️
I havent even read the book
This channel has been carrying my lunch breaks for years
Your profile picture is awesome sauce
I'm so glad you used the footage from the old Great Gatsby movie instead of the horrible 2012 Great Gatsby movie. Huge props to you Mr. Horse guy
Congratulations. You've done what my high school teacher couldn't do and made me understand this novel. Thank you.
Studying can wait Horses just uploaded…
Damn right
Horses is what you discuss in class, write in the long answer section, or submit to your teacher in double spaced, times new roman
I have not watched the video yet, but I know that it will be as thought-provoking, as articulate, and as magnificent as all your other videos. I still come back to your "Birds do not Sing in Caves" video often as I find it one of the best videos in the thousands of hours of UA-cam I've idly (and some regrettably) consumed, as I did not follow this trend for your essays. It is an awe-inspiring piece of work that has genuinely helped me these past few months. If I had the money to donate to your patreon, I would. Never stop being a genius Michael.
I used to watch your videos in the height of my training as a naval aircrewman. Your style and nostalgic voice brings me a feeling back to how it was back then. And I am sure to feel this as time only goes further. Thank you.
I love your videos I make pasta for a living and often I watch you videos while I’m doing it I find it very therapeutic and relaxing ty
Great video, Old Sport.
Horses please don't die or do anything bad, you are so goated.
Under your Poe video I asked if there was any chance of anything on Fitzgerald from you. And here we are. I'm sure there's no correlation ofc. Thank you, Michael.
So it's your fault ima have to watch this masterpiece instead of catching up on work
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If Fitzgerald thought the "American Dream" had gone downhill by the 1920s, I wonder when he thought it was at its best. I think the time before the Great Depression was a pretty good time to be alive and symbolizes a good convergence of science and technology.
Or maybe the country never really had a time when the "American Dream" was fully alive.
This kind of wondering falls apart if you keep asking "Good for who?" and "In what way was it good?". It's all subjective and relative. The time in which the american dream was greatly benefitting some group of white people gain wealth, it was also oppressing other groups and creating a shitty mindset in the people gainijng wealth from it. We like to make up cartoon ideas and overlay reality with them, fun fantasies of what is and has been and will be.
In my opinion, America's never really had an American Dream, certainly not a fully realized one. The American Dream promises that through great effort and tenacity, even the poorest man can become a greater, wealthier, happier version of himself. To me, it's always seemed pretty naive. Did all the nameless individuals forgotten by history simply not try hard enough? Is that why they failed to become anything "great"? Sure, pre-Great Depression you could say that things were going great in America...if you were white, preferably at least middle-class, living in a great centre of industry such as Detroit, New York or Chicago. What about everyone else? Were there any black men who managed to achieve the American Dream? The millions of farmers across the country, who lived just as their father and his father before him had, had they achieved the Dream? No, I don't think so. I think the American Dream is precisely that: a dream. It's something that only in the twenties did America wake up from, and even then, the persistence of this concept in American culture proves that it's not quite true.
"When Jay Gatsby dies, the American Dream dies with him" is something I've heard a lot of people say, but honestly, the American Dream never existed to begin with. It's a fantasy that people kept chasing, maybe for all their life. America's a land of opportunity, yes, but it's a land like all the others. It's not a paradise, it's not a haven, it's (especially in it's current state) barely standing on its own two legs without crumbling, like so many great powers before it.
Jay, like so many Americans, lives in illusion. His parties are like Venetian carnevals- everyone's wearing a mask. Including the host. It's a perfect representation of Prohibition- everyone's false, everyone's a gentleman and also a lawbreaker at the same time. They revel in their immorality. They're all perfectly fallible and human.
@pietrocatalano4285 People are story-apes. We always overlay reality with a story we like. The american dream was a powerful one, even being entirely imaginary, it had a massive impact on the world. I wonder what story we're in right now :)
@@pietrocatalano4285the American Dream is way to package up some of America’s core values (Capitalism, rugged individualism, liberalism, expansionism etc.) into one neat package. It goes alongside the other former ideal of manifest destiny during the settler era.
It’s quite subjective too, the classic example of the American dream would be the rags to riches story. However, others may personally define it as finding relative stability through hard work.
It was never a good time to be alive for Fitzgerald. He was part of the “lost” generation. Fought in the war, came back home with PTSD, great depression, and your sons die in the next war.
The roaring 20’s were fun, sure. But what were they hiding? A generation plastering over their mental wounds with booze and parties.
He died of a heart attack, after struggling with alcoholism his whole life, in 1940. I think that says it all.
This is the best channel on UA-cam.
Relax. Thats clearly ridiculous there are millions of channels.
There are many best channels. There are many best people, best books and best houses. The best of all of these, however, is yet to come. For the best is but in the eye of the beholder, as that allows the formation of the multiple.
A whole hour of horses on Fitzgerald?? HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME!
This is my favorite of all your videos. Unless I remember something else....
thank you for uploading this. i needed to read this book by tomorrow fro school and this video saved me from cramming all night!
I wish horses were real
Don't we all
I’m so hungry I could…
I for one am glad the stories of bigger, faster creatures that can kill a man with a single kick are fake and unreal.
Best UA-camr merch hands down this could be a brand by itself
Best content creator currently living right here.
Youve measured them all up have you?
Congrats on the Milly subs 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This was great! It’s also a story about gentrification. None of the major characters are native New Yorkers, Even the “old money” are transplants
Or, whether he intended it or not, The Great Gatsby is a transcendent critique of materialism and the way that greed and concupiscence have destroyed the true American Dream, which was to build a City on a Hill wherein dwelleth righteousness.
I always saw east and west egg as represented the east and west coast of America as well. West coast being more free from classes and has new money while east coast is strong into holding onto class and is old money. Valley of ashes is just the poorer fly over states that the rest of the country looks down on even though they need them for farming and industry
what's the music you are using in 19:06? Damn that felt magical
Only time I open youtube and feel lucky anymore is when horses posts a new video
This book is what introduced me to 6 years of studying English Lit. I walked around with it for a whole semester and beyond. A human portrait of a self-fulfilling loss and the death of not just a dream but dreaming itself.
Well, I was young! Lol
I remember being made to watch the movie in school but i reeeeally didn't pick up on any of the subtext. I think at that age we just didnt have the awareness to understand it, but now 15 years later watching this video the story seems so rich. Such a shame that as kids we had no interest in it
Always a great day when I see an hour long Horses video uploaded.. thank you for all you do brother ✌️🇮🇪
As someone who can't focus on a single sitting position alone for more than ten seconds, this hour-long video had me glued to my screen and inspired me to read The Great Gatsby that's been rotting in my bookshelf! Thank you for the well-spoken and greatly edited insight into the classic.
New horses lets freaking gooooooooooo. Thank you for all your hard work. Ive really grown as a person from all the new things i discover from your topics. You are a thoughtfull person and may you never go thirsty. I hope that groks.
I deeply appreciate your work. Keep it up. We need it
Oh boy, time to eat while watching a masterpiece
This has to be one of the greatest UA-cam accounts run by horses 🐎
I love this channel, the moment I start reading something he makes a video about it
This made me tear up a little, seeing the greed and the condition of humanity and being disappointed. 😢
Crazy that this channel is called Horses when all of its content is GOATed
As a non-native English speaker, this has been so far the only novel I've read in the original English form. The part that I think impacted me the most is the final part, where Gatsby's (alleged) father meets Nick, showing him his notes about building "successful habits". It really shows the fleeting nature of even today's success and the flaws of such an idea
I’ve been learning about noam Chomsky and his work. So this video comes at a great time
12:43 sounds like how the podcast bros refer to women....as high value or low value 🙄🤢🤮
Honestly I’ve seen so many iterations of Gatsby and seen so many analyses. This video tops all of that. What an incredible piece you’ve put together.
“Thats why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin
Firstly, I didn’t read this in school either just depended on other kids to get answers.
Secondly, that Truslow quote was fascinating to hear. Great work as always.
HORSES JUST DROPPED Y’ALL 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
So lucky to have found this channel. Pure Bliss 💫
Hey, I really like your videos and how you've put all the information condensed in a really great way. Is it religio-specific or just any historical event or person who was of great importance?
Just found your channel in my recommended but a video suggestion for you is to look back at the lord of flies. It’s a very thought provoking work to go back on to see how human nature's darker instincts can emerge when alone :)
This video was fantastic. Happy you create such valuable content. The first video I watched of yours was the Robin Hood video.
One of your finest Video...... Ever ✨
Your video came at the right time, cause I have a seminar today about this novel. Thanks!
“Alcoholic lottery winner commits vehicular manslaughter while driving impaired, the book” - 16 year old me 😂
Accurate
Only missing “everyone is an annoying brat”
your videos are always a gift
I'm shocked that someone was able to make me interestered again in the required-reading classic, The Great Gatsby. Well done!
The quotation of James Truslow Adams at 55:12 struck a chord with me, particularly, "...It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class..."
Michael, perhaps it was your intent to convey this, but I perceive this as a statement that stood in its time, albeit imperfectly, except now this micro-axiom has been turned on its head. America, and the American Dream, is now hampered by barriers which have been erected rapidly, in a mere several score of years. It is now Europe, from which our 19th and 20th century immigrants have fled, that has usurped this position from America. We have now effectively traded roles.
Love your work. Your video on Hemingway might be my favorite- if you ever did a video on Hunter S. Thompson, or journalism as a whole I think it would be an incredibly interesting topic in your style!
To add to this after completing the video, in a way Hunter S. Thompson could be seen as a sequel to this thinking on the American dream. It’s the core of what his hit Fear and Loathing is about yet it gets lost amidst the drugs and craze of Thompson’s prose which in turn turned HST into a characture of himself and started a decline in his work. Would be a really interesting continuation of this video
The Valley of Ashes is between the Eggs? That is news to me. Not saying it’s wrong, but having grown up on Long Island and read Gatsby numerous times, I always took the Eggs to be north shore Nassau County, and the VoA to be in Queens-unfashionable “flyover” country best sped through en route to shimmering Manhattan.
Another fantastic video. Thank you for your work!
every time there’s a new horses video i almost pee my pants in excitement
Cigarettes, coffee, and a new horses video. It truly is the little things.
This might be the most sigma male channel on UA-cam
please keep making videos. they are amazing
The American dream used to be in the future, by now it's in it's past. It's never been in the here and now.
Always look forward to your videos
always a good day when Horses uploads
This is one of my favorite 20th century novels I can't wait to devour this
Fitzgerald's writing has a dreamy poetic quality which contrasts with the stark events in the novel I always thought that was what made it so riveting.
Thanks for your efforts. I appreciate your perspectives.
We thank you for this gift today
Finally this stupid book finally makes some sense to me. I had no idea why anyone did anything they said or did.
I REALLY could've done without that thumbnail in my life... 😭
That was a really fascinating analysis.
Made me want to read the book again 👍
I enjoyed this video, so thank you. Keep up the good work.
Like always, thank you for making my day with your video.
This channel is amazing.
Holllly Shit, I was feeling really badly about life lately and I realized, (when I saw this upload) it WASNT because I had been watching your content/philosophy, but just life+the world itself
_Grapes of Wrath_ video when?
For a lot of us, the American Dream has always felt like a travel brochure to a place you’re sure exists, but you’ll only ever seen on TV
You’re very talented good sir an excellent understanding of literature and grammar plus a captivating air to your narration and interpretations
22:59 bro basically said that Daisy Buchanan ruined a generation of women long before Scott Pilgram v. The World.
wow when did you get so popular? congrats! 🐎
very well done. how many hours did it take to create?
Your video essays are incredible.
Extremely engaging ideas throughout, making me double back and refine my own analysis over geopolitical reflections
As always thank you for your work good Sir!
Happy to be here for one of the best American novels
Love can be false and tricksey 14:30
You are a true gem on the Internet 💎
Another banger video, thanks Mike.
She old on my sport till I great gatsby
the fact that this came out literally a day after my exam on this book is crazy
Best horse channel in the whole UA-cam
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb to it,if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.” The great American Illusion, even if you are a magnate with the money to buy the whole damned country, only exists in the most unsuspecting moments of fleeting solitude.
I haven't read 'The Great Gatsby', but I wonder if John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' (one of my favourite stories) is somehow inspired by it.
Great video man👍
Yay another Horses upload ❤
Your videos are amazing