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Previous page, it states that flying is freedom. With
“If flying is freedom, and if Fevvers’s flying represents Fevver, for some reason, her flying is not freedom.
a kind of counter freedom, then we have an inversion Flying is very symbolic of freedom because you can
that creates significance: she’s trapped by the ability fly around and no one can stop you or pull you down.
most symbolic of freedom.”
Chapter 16; Page 138
“Every American should know enough of the blues to
understand exactly what keys and locks signify, and to
blush when they’re referred to.”
Chapter 17; Page 144
“When they’re writing about other things, they
really mean sex, and when they write about sex,
they really mean something else.”
Chapter 18; Page 160
“And if you’re going to be born, you may need a
doctor in attendance (although he usually doesn’t have
to dive in with you, to the relief of mothers
everywhere), and there’s going to be all that amniotic
fluid and afterbirth, after that cleaning and a receiving
blanket and the whole bit.”
Chapter 19; Page 171
“Okay, so here’s the gerneral rule: whether it’s Italy or
Greece or Africa or Malaysia, or Vietnam, when
writers send characters south, it’s so they can run
amok.”
Chapter 20; Page 178
“Maybe it’s hardwired into us that spring has to do
with childhood and youth, summer with adulthood
and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn
with decline and middle age and tiredness but also
harvest, winter with old age and resentment and
death.”
Chapter 21; Page 197
“Perhaps a touch of Isis and Osiris thrown inl Osiris
was torn apart and the goddess Isis succeeded in
reassembling him except for the part that makes Jake
Barnes resemble him (the Osiris myth is an Egyptian
fertility myth).”