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Quotation from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.”
The Great Gatsby, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #64317 (1925 text))
Telling how James Gatz invented Jay Gatsby at seventeen, Nick borrows the words of the boy Jesus in the Temple to describe a self-made god serving a false beauty.
Citation: "He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #64317 (1925 text)). (id the-great-gatsby-q3)
Portrait: The Great Gatsby Cover 1925 Retouched, Francis Cugat (cover art); Charles Scribner's Sons, Public domain.
