Show HN: The Occult Gatsby

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17 points | by morganw 1 hour ago

2 comments

  • pringk02 1 hour ago
    I want to believe, but scanning the bibliography I couldn’t find the source that suggested Fitzgerald’s following of Orage.

    An interesting reading all the same, though I’ve only scanned it a little

    • goodmythical 56 minutes ago
      Appears to be an original claim by the author defended in https://www.academia.edu/147021487/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_Th...
      • marginalia_nu 28 minutes ago
        Just because one can do an occult exegesis for a text doesn't necessarily mean there is substance there. This is a very common problem with this type of analysis, and has been for as long as we've been at it.

        You can demonstrably shake the Enneads out of Plato's dialogues by sketching in their negative spaces, even though Plato himself would probably have many pointed questions about the neoplatonists' work.

  • pigeons 1 hour ago
    needs more sources and variety