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And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

posted on February 18, 2006 11:27 AM

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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and he great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

posted on February 18, 2006 11:30 AM

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I lingered round them, under that benign sky; wachted the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly ino the past.

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Old father, old articifer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

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submitted on February 18, 2006 11:07 AM
Recently the American Book Review has made a compendium of the 100 best first lines of novels. http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/02/04/news/doc43e3e6b004381080724526.txt . But what are the ...

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