The Great Gatsby.....Trekking time....

Read this book last week....loved it...the story, the style of writing...F.Scott Fitzgerald has written a gem of a book, IMHO.
Its a thin thin novel but i was totally absorbed in it till the end.

Went for a trek last weekend, to a place called Harishchandragad, in Maharashtra. The 3 day trek was good exercise and a lot of fun.
Rode in a truck, slept under starry skies, lived in a cave, climbed a lot, relieved myself out in the open, saw a snake and a scorpion at arms length, peered off cliffs at 4700 feet above sea level..and generally had a ball of a time.

Its crazy how the clammy feeling of fear can blank out everything from your mind...even if only temporarily.

It would be great to share those scenes with with you but given my abhorrence for cameras, I will have to wait for science to be able to print memories from the recesses of my brain in order to do that. :)

Anyways, have a great friday tomm and a great weekend ahead.

Peace,
Me.

2 quotes from the Great Gatsby :

1. Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

2. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.