Can there be a dark apotheosis of something?

Do you mean, like, Jay Gatsby's life is to Ben Franklin's as the orcs are to the elves?

The main problem is that such phrases stubbornly resist intelligibility. They almost mean something. They approximate the shape of an idea. They have a pungent taste, but taste of nothing you can name. They arrest the reader's attention, stopping them dead in mid-sentence, but they don't reward that attention by resolving into anything they can carry to the end of the sentence. So, finally, they irritate more than they delight.

My opinion.

So what would a "dark apotheosis" be, anyway? Exaltation to satanic stature?

that said, in my mind "dark apotheosis" is satanic, in its own way. Gatsby, as exemplified many times in his tragedy, believes in the utilitarianism of Franklin, but is woefully misguided as to use his capacity for self-betterment. Gatsby is a pinnacle of what can go wrong if one believes too strongly in the american myth of 'rags to riches'.

or something like that...

and strike that "to be" construction, yo - "Jay Gatsby REPRESENTS..."

GOTHIC ANUS

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"With his Autobiography, Ben Franklin set the template for the American Dream, a template that Mark Twain realized only worked if one avoided actually reading the work, and that F. Scott Fitzgerald to a shuddering apotheosis in The Great Gatsby."

(i used to be so good at writing english papers. used to do it for money, even got $175 for 8 pages on Wilde (A+), but my 'talent' is essentially gone, obv.)

thanks for the help.

(note that I can't object to the construction "achieves/reaches/etc its dark apotheosis in...")

(note to self: stop selling blood to goths, start selling english papers to goths)

Did we ever sort this out

No offense but "Jay Gatsby is the dark apotheosis of The autobiography of Ben Franklin" makes no sense.

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The effort to bring together the logic of the commodity form with the social, to calibrate thought and economy (efforts undertaken differently by Karl Marx and Max Weber) finds its dark apotheosis in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Ad Reinhardt ‘s, Black Paintings series (1963-66), might, as a group, be seen as the “ultima thule” of generic painting, abstraction’s dark apotheosis with barely differentiated and repetitive compositional schema.

The speed with which they gained ground, the rapid succession of quick victories they accumulated (included their dramatic seizure of the city of Mosul), and the shocking way in which the Iraqi army melted before them came together to function as a kind of dark apotheosis for the group, leaving them not only the world’s richest terrorist organization, but also its most feared.

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