And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of
Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of
his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream
must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it.
But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere
in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the
republic rolled on under the night.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1926
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