Show HN: The Occult Gatsby

18 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by morganw

4 Comments

pringk02

10 hours ago

I want to believe, but scanning the bibliography I couldn’t find the source that suggested Fitzgerald’s following of Orage.

An interesting reading all the same, though I’ve only scanned it a little

goodmythical

10 hours ago

Appears to be an original claim by the author defended in https://www.academia.edu/147021487/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_Th...

marginalia_nu

9 hours ago

Just because one can do an occult exegesis for a text doesn't necessarily mean there is substance there. This is a very common problem with this type of analysis, and has been for as long as we've been at it.

You can demonstrably shake the Enneads out of Plato's dialogues by sketching in their negative spaces, even though Plato himself would probably have many pointed questions about the neoplatonists' work.

pigeons

10 hours ago

needs more sources and variety