“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Yes, m’am. Fitzgerald follows many religions in finding in nature a model, or metaphor, for life-death-rebirth. In Christianity the analogy serves transformation in this life, as well as the next.
Much of religion’s deepest thought finds us nestled serendipitously in the pages of novels. Thanks for sharing, D.