Puck Around And Fall
with a question mark that carried genuine philosophical uncertainty.
"You're not completely lost," I said. "You just need a framework."
He exhaled. "Okay. Framework. I can do a framework."
I pulled the book toward me and we started from the beginning, which with Gatsby meant starting with the question of performance — who was performing what, for whom, and what it cost them. Finn was a better student than his four sticky notes suggested. He asked real questions, the kind that came from actually thinking rather than from trying to seem like he was thinking. When I explained the green light as the physical form of an impossible ideal, something you kept reaching for precisely because you could