FatcatXN Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
What does "liver exercises" and "Adam study" mean?
I've been reading <The Great Gatsby>
We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths - intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr.Klipspringer, the "boarder.." I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning.
Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath, and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.
What does "liver exercises" and "Adam study" mean?
We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths - intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr.Klipspringer, the "boarder.." I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning.
Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath, and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.
What does "liver exercises" and "Adam study" mean?
Top answer
Probably: exercises for improving the condition of the liver. org/wiki/Adam_style
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Probably: exercises for improving the condition of the liver.
FYI:
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/gatsby/terms.html
Adam style
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
FYI:
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/gatsby/terms.html
Adam style
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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Liver exercises mean he was drinking, or
"exercising the liver" as mr. Klipsinger was a drunk. 
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