Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town - LewRockwell

Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town - LewRockwell

“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.” – T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets “You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of cour…