Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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@adamwheeler99.bsky.social looking forward to completing your masterpiece and adding it to the motor bookshelf, alongside Ring of Fire, Winners, Sinnners, Grinners and Superbikes!

Racing in Blade Runner this weekend!

Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to

Hard conversation to have

"Safety" car

This took a long time and a lot of research to put together:
- How Marc Marquez misunderstood the rules, but got away with it
- How the chaos happened
- Why the race was red flagged
- The 2018 vs 2025 rules
- Why nobody was penalized
- How can we prevent it happening again?

Like, it boggles my mind that Race Direction and IRTA decided that journalist are the problem in pit lane, and not the 50 million I fluencers, C-movie stars, or musicians you've never heard of.

FINE! I pre-ordered it, but I want the team to do a pod about other racing books enthusiasts may enjoy as well, when y'all do Adam's book promo episode.

This RULED!

maybe i'm wrong here and everything is culture war and nothing matters but i have a feeling this Musk shitposting about destroying government departments and agencies will ultimately be filed under 'extremely regrettable'

Such a fantastic breakdown of what a rider can do in mere seconds, which, to Marc, is like eons.

Ah hell, Mat! You got me to buy a subscription to Bike.

I wrote this and I endorse this

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

How is this an unpopular opinion?

I had no idea Nicky removed an entire row of bones in his hand. Incredible!

Get them from Mat now, or from Amazon for a 600% markup later.

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Everything got so stupid so quickly.

Having suffered 15 years of central Texas heat, I never, ever complain about the cold in Santa Fe.

I mean, old people do nap a lot!

Episode 1: A New Hope

That race had the first day of school vibes! "I am the fastest, just watch"

::gravel trap::

I give this thumbs up to people who don't know how a roundabout works. It RULES!

Fact

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

They may want Berlin 1933

But we can make it Paris 1789

Squeee!!!