the T.J. Eckleburg of Verbier

‘Above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg…they look out of no face but, instead, for a pair of enormous yellow spectacle which pass over a nonexistent nose’

–The Great Gatsby

However, the Alps are hardly the ‘valley of the ashes’ of Queens.