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Appears to be an original claim by the author defended in https://www.academia.edu/147021487/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_The_Great_Gatsby_F_Scott_Fitzgeralds_Allegor
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Appears to be an original claim by the author defended in https://www.academia.edu/147021487/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_The_Great_Gatsby_F_Scott_Fitzgeralds_Allegory_of_the_Gurdjieff_Work https://www.academia.edu/147021487/An_Esoteric_Reading_of_Th...
- marginalia_nu 3mo agoJust because one can do an occult exegesis for a text doesn't necessarily mean there is substance there. This is a very common problem with this type of analysis, and has been for as long as we've been at it. You can demonstrably shake the Enneads out of Plato's dialogues by sketching in their negative spaces, even though Plato himself would probably have many pointed questions about the neoplatonists' work.