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"One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work" Gloria Naylor |
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notes"All this happened, more or less."Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
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notes"‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’"Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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notes"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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notes"My name is Kathy H."Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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notes"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us."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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"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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notes"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
