If you are able to picture faces in your mind then you don’t have severe prosopognosia. What you are describing is normal wandering/free association of the mind.

I’m glad I’m not the only one!

Not a word wasted in that book. Fitzgerald knew what he was doing with that repetition.

I found it really tedious and obtuse. I know I didn’t give it the attention it deserved but I was soured on it almost from the start. I loved his short stories but this didn’t do it for me.