Greatness?

The goal is pursuit.

Be the chaser.

Harness the warm human magic

And make life possess you

With such raw intensity

That the business of the day  

Simply and gently falls away.

It’s so difficult to be interesting these days.

The greatest parties have the saddest hosts.

Mrs. Dalloway:

Buy the flowers for yourself.

Gatsby:

You are the pursued and the pursuing,

But so busy and tired.

I will keep wondering

most painfully

about greatness

and what makes it so.