i just realised something about tj eckleburg in bsd and i’d like to point it out bc i think it’s a neat detail
so, as a lot of people may know, the character comes from the great gatsby - doctor tj eckleburg is a on billboard and he’s got huge blue eyes and yellow spectacles - and in the book, a character called wilson looks at him and says that “god is always watching”, which is where the “eyes of god” thing comes from in bsd
i feel like that’s very well known, but something that i didn’t realise but i think is a cool detail if i’m right, is why tj tries to kill himself with a degreasing agent for metal when fitzgerald goes to find him. it always seemed a little random to me why this would be the way he’d kill himself since there are much easier ways
but i think the reason for this is because in the book, wilson is the one who gives him the title of “god” and wilson works at a car repair shop, which is a place where a degreasing agent for metal would be used - and since wilson and tj eckleburg are connected, it would make sense to give bsd’s tj a little tie back to that
very small detail, and ofc idk if this is actually why he‘a written to try to kill himself in this way, but i still think it’s a cool detail if so!
