"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"What you want is to be rich; that´s the dream inside your head: you want to go back richer than your father, you understand? But what happens? You spend years here, years, years. You want to be rich in order to go back, and you´ll never be rich!... You always want to have twice as much, but it never comes! And one year goes by, and then another. And the year go by and you don´t even notice! (Sherif, a 37-year-old Gambian man married to a spanish woman, with whom he has a three children)"
Fragmento de una entrevista a un inmigrante de Gambia incluida en el trabajo de Rodriguez-García: RODRÍGUEZ GARCIA, D., “Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Intermarriage in Spain”, en GRILLO, R., (Ed.) The Family in Question. Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe, Amsterdam University Press, 2008, pp. 245-267, p. 246.
