Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg

"But above the yellow land and the spasms of bleak rust which drift endlessly over it, you percieve, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg are blue and small - their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a existent foot. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Kings, and then shank down himself into external blindness, or forgot them and moved away.But his eyes, dimmed a little by many pantless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground"

(Chapter Two Great Gatsby)

Found this lone billboard in the middle of Times Square and it reminded me instantly of the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg from the Great Gatsby. Beauty all on its own. 

H&K- Jess

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