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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf

where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth.

Thank you for choosing to be here this evening.

Tonight, we are continuing with the great Gatsby.

But before we do, let's give ourselves some time to be present. Lie or sit very still, uncrossing your legs and keep your arms by your sides.

Close your eyes and breathe evenly and naturally.

focus on the air coming in to your body

and leaving it.

Allow the gentle rhythm and stillness.

Relax your body and mind.

If any thoughts creep in, you could try saying quietly to yourself.

I'm breathing in, I'm breathing out.

You can acknowledge the thoughts in the meantime and then let them slide away while keeping

your focus on your breath while you do this, I will recap our last episode.

Nick Carraway had come out of the army and had decided to go into bonds like many of his Yale contemporaries.

He moved to New York from the Midwest, but didn't like the idea of living in the

city and so took a rental in Long Island on a piece of land called West Egg, right over the water

from the more fashionable East Egg, where his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan were

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