And ready to go, so let me ask you to start things off. All right, thank you michael. Do we have five hours . [laughter] i want to take this paragraph or two and pull it apart. One of the wonderful things about writing a book about the great gatsby is that i can purchase assume pretty much assume, as i think andrew can that were speaking to an audience who has read the novel at least at some point in their lives. So im going to read from the first chapter where nick decides to go visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan who he hasnt seen in a while. Hes invited for dinner, and he walks into the buchanan mansion. With tom buy canna who has to be one of the greatest characters in literature. We walked through a high hallway into a bright, rosycolored space, fragilely bound into the house by french windows at eitherrened. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh glass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room blew curtains in at one e