What the $%#& is he talking about?

Cool story bro.

It's still legible, no? Are you implying that you would care more about reading it if it were new?

It's perfectly legible. Except for the cover. The picture wore off a long time ago (I assume). But I prefer older, more worn hardcover books to the newer paperbacks.

The green light is a metaphor.

As long as it's a novel and not a linguistics textbook.

Did a paper on Bashkir once and had to do it based on a rather... archaic grammar. The language itself was/is obviously not archaic, but the way in which the phonetic transcriptions and morphological paradigms were described left me having to make educated guesses all over the place.

Nick Carraway lies. A lot.

The green light is a metaphor.

Nobody ever told me about that. Which green light?

Nobody ever told me about that. Which green light?

The one Gatsby looks at in the book.

It's at the very end of chapter 1. The last two paragraphs.