"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
I liked the way the sentence was organized. It combined phrases filled with descriptive words and similes and segmented them so that it could create on great Gatsbian sentence. I especially like how Fitzgerald found a way to compare a person to a seismograph of all things.
If a crowd is a thriving mass of energies carried by the throng of people, then there is something vivacious about this one in particular, a seemingly infinite amount of life flows through these people, as if they were akin to a dam that had endless amounts of water flowing through it.
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