I have been failing at my post once a week resolution. Apologies to the one of you who I know checks in here regularly!

I’ve decided to re-read the Great Gatsby for the first time since high school. The inspiration came after going to dinner where live jazz music was playing and while I could remember very little about the plot of the Great Gatsby I momentarily felt like I was a character in that book – I think it was the music.

Anyways, I have yet to begin reading, I’ve only taken the book off the bookshelf and added it to the stack of half read books by my bed. This quote, however, prefaces the entire book:

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;

If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,

Till she cry ‘Lover, gold hatted, high-bouncing lover,

I must have you!’ ”

-Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

Somehow, struck me as blogworthy.