Delusive Romance (PART 2 OF 3)
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Subj:Summer is
just around the corner!
From: diane@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 4:37 pm.
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Hi Kato,
Well, well, well ... my skinny Socrates!
You ARE a deep thinker, aren't you?
I quite agree that we often waste our time in idle chatter, and I'll be the first to admit I'm guilty on that account myself.
Often, I will ask myself what the best use of my day will be and, for a great part of it, I do manage to accomplish worthwhile activies ... like exercising, time in nature, contact with friends, rest, reading and contemplating ...
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BUT there is still wasted slack time that's for sure.
...guess it's a dance we all have to learn---the dance of living a worthwhile life, don't you think?
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■"Net Love"
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
I loved the above article ... very thoughtful.
I'm sure that chatroom lovers can eventually learn to love each other, while face-to-face might produce the opposite affect.
But when you think about it, a chatroom lover can't hold your hand, or kiss you or hold you or go with you to a movie very well now, can they?!
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Nothing beats a face-to-face even thought there are no guarantees it will work out ... no guarantees either way, so might as well go for the real McCoy, I'd say.
Most chatroom love would be pseudo-love, I'm guessing.
Ah, it's all so very interesting, anyway.
Thanks so much for the above article, kiddo,
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Love, Diane ~
SOURCE: "Complicated Love"
(July 5, 2011)
Well, well, well ... my skinny Socrates! Did I send you the above mail three years ago? Time flies by, doesn't it?
Yes, it does indeed. I wrote about Net love at the time. As you say, Diane, nothing beats a face-to-face even thought there are no guarantees it will work out ... no guarantees either way, so might as well go for the real McCoy... You're absolutely right on.
You're now talking about a complicated love in the movie, huh?
Yes, I am, but actually, Gatsby's love isn't so complicated. It is rather straightforward yet obsessive.
How obsessive?
Take a look at the following clip. Jordan Baker is talking about Gatsby's obsessive love to Daisy.
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So, Kato, you don't like obsessive love, do you?
Yes and no... It all depends.
How do you mean?
I think Daisy is happily married, but she doesn't realize it simply because her life becomes routine. So she might be searching for some excitement. In due course, she meets Gatsby.
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Daisy tells Gatsby that she's been loving him, but I think she just says so simply because she thinks she is supposed to say so in such an occasion.
Then what will happen?
Naturally, Gatsby believes her and confronts her husband.
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So, Kato, you're saying that Daisy doesn't really love Gatsby, aren't you?
Well, she isn't so sure about anything in the first place. That's the reason I wrote, "Daisy is such a weak-minded---if not feeble-minded---girl who doesn't know what she really wants."
Did Gatsby love her from the bottom of his heart?
I think he did. After all, Daisy abandons Gatsby at the most critical moment, and the final scene will follow.
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I think Daisy is a trouble maker. In other words Gatsby fell in love with the wrong girl.
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【Himiko's Monologue】
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Jay Gatsby is a young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections.
Later, he is revealed to be a bootlegger.
Originally from North Dakota, Gatsby is obsessed with Daisy Buchanan, whom he had met when he was a young officer stationed in the South during World War I.
The character is based on the bootlegger and former World War I officer Max Gerlach, according to "Some Sort of Epic Grandeur"---Matthew J. Bruccoli's biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Gatsby is said to have briefly studied at Trinity College, Oxford in England after the end of World War I.
Gatsby seems to be a man of complicated desire and ambition.
Exactly what kind of person is Jay Gatsby?
Here is a psychoanalysis of Jay Gatsby by Jared DeFife, Assistant Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University.
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In any case, I'd like to meet my "Gatsby"---a decent man in my future life.
How come I'm always a loner?
I wish I could meet a nice gentleman at the library in my town as Diane met Kato.
Well, they say, there is a way where there is a will.
I hope Kato will write another interesting article.
So please come back to see me.
Have a nice day!
Bye bye ...
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(To be followed)