Necessary for people who care about the English language or the American story, or human beings. If none of this applies to you, by all means return to whatever it is you people do.
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“Necessary for people who care about the English language...”
Actually if you care about the English language you read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the KJV, and so on. I’ve done that.
“...or the American story,”
So the American Story is set only in 1922? There was no American story before or since?
“...or human beings.”
Wow, if people couldn’t read Gatsby until 1925, then, I guess no one could “care about...human beings” before that time, right?
“If none of this applies to you, by all means return to whatever it is you people do.”
Thankfully, my horizons are much bigger than The Great Gatsby. I realize good literature existed - in many languages - before 1925.