I have to disagree with you there, Emperor Bokassa I. I was a session musician with Gatsby's band in the late 60's, and he snorted, injected, drank, fucked, robbed, and rocked as hard as the next guy. He is not as clean cut a figure as you might suggest. The artificial heart rumour is true, though, I saw Gatsby's flesh heart cleft from his living body 40 years ago in Tokyo, by a minor celebrity who shall remain nameless, and has since met their demise (in suspicious circumstances). Fortunately thanks to judicious medication, Gatsby did not die, and instead walked to the nearest hospital. Have you ever seen a man with no heart hike four miles through Shinjuku covered in his own arterial blood? I think emphatically not.