Yeah. it might have been a reach. There’s a soliloquy about Gatsby’s death: “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”

I was relying too heavily on people knowing that moment in the book.

It’s… honestly haunting when you read it in the context of the novel. My arm hairs are standing on end just revisiting it. The narrator, Nick, might sound cordially distanced, but he's emotionally rocked by all of this. They were really great about understating psychological trauma back in the day.

Yeah. it might have been a reach. There's a soliloquy about Gatsby's death: "He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."

I was relying too heavily on those first three words to sell the comment.

It's... honestly haunting when you read it in the context of the novel. My arm hairs are standing on end just revisiting it. There's no reduction that you could make on the literature that would the story the same. The narrator might seem distanced now, but it was raw as fuck at the time

Hammer falls "Overruled."

"He must have looked up at the sky - which was kinda different - and then admired his new lawn."

Okay, but like... can I see it?

Every day we lose a little more of our humanity.

Dad?

Can I just respond to this with the entire lyrics for The Logical Song by Supertramp?

Yeah, those grapes probably have herpes anyway.

Who doesn't want to leave a sparkly, effervescent corpse after dying of asphyxiation and painful organ failure due to excessive carbonic acid buildup?

I'll have the brain bullet, thanks.

Not sure why the "uwu" was necessary, but okay.

I appreciate the quantification.

So is the Likert, but I bet you anyone trying hard enough can get gayer.

It's the quantum gay that we really have to measure, but I can't pin its velocity for some reason.

Yeah, I can see a place smelling like a public swimming pool being off-putting. 10% bleach is really common across the food industry, though. Making bread, jerky, kombucha, and various grains, each facility had the same bleach concentration for cleaning (among other cleaning and sanitizing solutions).

I don't know why you went for the left. Plenty of meat left on the right one. We'll send a team out in a month.

I think it should've been called CORVID in the first place. It just sounds cooler and it still fits the naming convention.

Legend right here.

The depression or commenting in this thread? Probably both because of self-destructive tendencies.

Depressed.

Oh, wait, I'm in the States.