Finishing Gatsby today

I came up with a plan:  I'll use the readingless days to read ahead with the next text (Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), so that I won't have to do multiple chapters a day (or worse, reading and writing on the same day) when the class gets to that text.

So I'm reading (and logging) the last chapter of Gatsby today:
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5:18 p.m.  Chapter IX is 18 pages long.

5:19 p.m.  I'm having difficulty accepting that this will soon be over.  This is a beautiful book.

5:20 p.m.  The best thing I've read since Kurt Tucholsky's "Schloss Gripsholm" last summer ... but that was different, it wasn't for a class, but for ... another reason.

5:23 p.m.  I'm rambling.  But what's Catherine's "corrected brow"?

5:24 p.m.  Oh.  Her eyebrows, as described back in chapter II (on p. 30).

5:30 p.m.  Who's James J. Hill?

5:32 p.m.  Okay, found him in Wikipedia.

5:33 p.m.  So I also looked for Dan Cody on Wikipedia, but it turns out that he is actually a fiction of this text  :)

5:36 p.m.  Ha!  "The Swastika Holding Company"  :)  You have to keep in mind when this book was written.

5:38 p.m.  Wolfsheim on Gatsby:  "I made him."  Matches what I wrote about Wolfsheim in my paper for yesterday's class  :)

5:45 p.m.  "And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate."  Note the oxymoron of colors  :)

5:48 p.m.  What "lost Swede towns"?  I'd like to go to some lost Swede towns!  :)

5:51 p.m.  Wow that was an amazing "night scene by El Greco"!

5:53 p.m.  Now we're in the "Whatever happened to ..." pages.

5:59 p.m.  Done.  I'm the man with the owl-eyed glasses  :)