My own favorite is "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Best last paragraph ever written: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then--but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms a little farther--until one fine morning---So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
How can you top that? In those words, Fitzgerald captures the entire "American Dream," and how it continues to elude so many of us.
2007-02-24
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