Online Agenda Items

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/02/time_machine.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/02/the_chicken_or_the_egg.html

"We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still some distance away. 'Wreck!' said Tom. 'That's good. Wilson'll have a little business at last.'"

Chapter 7, pg 144 (in Penguin Popular Classics edition)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/02/automobiles_and_people_both_ca.html

"[T]here's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature."

Foster, pg 29

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/02/originalitystatusdeceased.html

"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn, "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.

Page 155

"The devil, as the old saying goes, can quote Scripture. So can writers. Even those who aren't madly religious or don't live within the Judeo-Christian tradition may work something in from Job or Matthew or the Psalms. That may explain all those gardens, serpents, tongues of flame, and voices from whirlwind."

page 48

"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." (pg 92)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/02/green_light.html

"CONNECT THESE DOTS: garden, serpent, plagues, flood, parting of waters, loaves, fishes, forty days, betrayal, denial, slavery and escape, fatted calves, milk and honey. Ever read a book with all these things in them?" (pg 47)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/02/_or_the_bible_foster.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/02/bad_driving_is_bad.html

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."
- Nick Carraway p. 186