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Dafyd
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I haven't seen this one for a while.

Post the first or the last line of a book. (Specify which by tagging with F or L.) First person to guess correctly gets to put the next one.

Easy one to start:

(F): In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.

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Wet Kipper
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That's Eric Carle's
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I'll think of another

[ 21. November 2014, 13:25: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]

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Wet Kipper
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(F) I returned from the city about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.....


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Dal Segno

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The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

[F] The big groundcar jerked to a stop centimeters from the vehicle ahead of it, and Armsman Pym, driving, swore under his breath.

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Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds

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Brenda Clough
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A CIVIL CAMPAIGN, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

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Science fiction and fantasy writer with a Patreon page

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Sipech
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Of which work is this the first line?
quote:
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.


[ 21. November 2014, 16:45: Message edited by: Sipech ]

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Golden Key
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Marx's "Communist Manifesto"?

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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")

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Sipech
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Close, but think a little later in Karl's writing career.

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Dal Segno

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Capital

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Dafyd
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If you've checked you've got it correctly, you don't need to wait to post another one.

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Dal Segno

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[F]The twelve men congregated in the smoking room of the Crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met.

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Dafyd
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Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries.

(F)It was a nice day.

That's only the prologue: this, the start of the main text, might make it easier...

(F)Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago.

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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams

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Dafyd
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From the same...
(L)And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human...
Slouching hopefully toward Tadfield.
... for ever.


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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams

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Dal Segno

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Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman (the creepy bits) and Terry Pratchett (the funny bits).

This seems appropriate for the Ship...

[F]Not many years ago when I was an atheist,...

[L]Their vision fails them and they cover their eyes from the intolerable light of utter actuality, which was and is and shall be, which never could have been otherwise, which has no opposite.

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