Gatsby gets new life, but not in a way Fitzgerald might have imagined
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It is one of the most famous last paragraphs in modern literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald ended
The Great Gatsby with these memorable words: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” And that, you would think, was that.
Only
Gatsby is not being borne ceaselessly into the past. In fact this year, with the novel freshly out of copyright in the US, it is being borne ceaselessly into the future, albeit in different iterations.