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The name of this blog - "Gatzing Out" - is a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. (Maybe you've heard of it.) I decided to name my blog after it because I think Fitzgerald is a literary genius and The Great Gatsby is the pinnacle of American literature.
NOT.
In fact, I was forced to read The Great Gatsby in high school and I came to the conclusion that Jay Gatsby is...how to put this nicely? Psychotic. He is constantly overreacting to everything ("Whoa, there, old sport!") - and so my friends and I invented the phrase "to gatz out," meaning "to overreact/freak out about something on a Jay Gatsby level." Over time, the phrase has stuck, and my friends and I still use it regularly...thus, the title "Gatzing Out."
NOT.
In fact, I was forced to read The Great Gatsby in high school and I came to the conclusion that Jay Gatsby is...how to put this nicely? Psychotic. He is constantly overreacting to everything ("Whoa, there, old sport!") - and so my friends and I invented the phrase "to gatz out," meaning "to overreact/freak out about something on a Jay Gatsby level." Over time, the phrase has stuck, and my friends and I still use it regularly...thus, the title "Gatzing Out."
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- Renee
- Dartmouth grad, supermarket cashier, freelance writer, occasional misanthrope.
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