Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Commensurate

"Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder" (180).




Commensurate: proportionate, corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

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