Thanks to video conferencing becoming an increasingly integral part of our lives, the bookshelf is the new/old way to flex on other people. In an underappreciated scene from The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald flexes Gatsby's bookshelf in an exceptionally ironic way.

0:00 Flexing Our Bookshelves
1:33 Owl Eyes and Gatsby's "Real" Books
2:45 Stoddard Lectures
4:06 A Regular Belasco!
4:41 Didn't Cut the Pages
5:29 Conclusion

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Film Credits:
The Great Gatsby. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, performances by Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire, Warner Brothers, 2013.

Sources:
Shaw, Patrick W. "Owl Eyes, Stoddard's Lectures, and 'The Great Gatsby'" The South Central Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 1983.

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