"Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees–he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via benjury)