The Mind of ICA

January 2019

What's next after reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , the 1920's classic and the story adapted by the 2013 movie The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann.

"Anything I tried to focus on would lose its shape and burrow its way soundlessly into the surrounding obscurity. Perhaps this could be called "pale darkness," but pale as it might be, it had its own particular kind of density, which in some cases contained a more deeply meaningful darkness than perfect pitch darkness. In it, you see something, and at the same time, you could see nothing at all."