Comments on: I wasn’t even trying http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/10/22/i-wasnt-even-trying/ the way of ginsu Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dusan Writer http://blog.ginsudo.com/2009/10/22/i-wasnt-even-trying/#comment-146 Dusan Writer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:50:20 +0000 http://blog.ginsudo.com/?p=493#comment-146 I LOVE the 'owl eye' character - kind of echoes the billboard with Eckleburg with their enormous yellow spectacles on the billboard hovering over the highway. Owl eyes looking to see what's real, and Eckleburg the sort of god figure brooding, looking but not saying (seeing) anything. I like the idea of Nick as the unreliable driver/seer of the story. But maybe it's more appropriate to say it's about what we can look up TO...Eckleburg has the most visible 'vision' of all but says nothing. In the absence of looking up at all, all we're left with is what's within: the pages of the book are filled after all where we expected a facade. Whether that's enough to sustain us depends, I suppose, on the authenticity of our tales. I LOVE the ‘owl eye’ character – kind of echoes the billboard with Eckleburg with their enormous yellow spectacles on the billboard hovering over the highway. Owl eyes looking to see what’s real, and Eckleburg the sort of god figure brooding, looking but not saying (seeing) anything.

I like the idea of Nick as the unreliable driver/seer of the story.

But maybe it’s more appropriate to say it’s about what we can look up TO…Eckleburg has the most visible ‘vision’ of all but says nothing.

In the absence of looking up at all, all we’re left with is what’s within: the pages of the book are filled after all where we expected a facade. Whether that’s enough to sustain us depends, I suppose, on the authenticity of our tales.

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