November 2009
13 posts
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
– J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
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“‘And don’t forget,’ my father would say, as if he expected me...”
– Graham Swift, Waterland
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“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding...”
– H G Wells, The Time Machine
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“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.”
– C S Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
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“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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“In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted...”
– Patrick Süskind, Perfume
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“Mother died today.”
– Albert Camus, The Outsider
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“Once upon a time in Westphalia, in the castle of Monsieur the Baron von...”
– Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism
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“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the...”
– Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
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“Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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“A child wants to see.”
– Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
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“Somebody must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested...”
– Franz Kafka, The Trial
October 2009
10 posts
4 tags
“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the...”
– Paul Auster, City of Glass