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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Or Ernest Hemingway with The Sun Also Rises? The snobs!
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that one's easy it means
"betcha don't finish this before tomorrow ! "
then there's
War and Peace a.ka.
I think that's all my options covered.
give me a hard one.
so honesty test 3: how many times has a stricking epigraph prompted you to go buy/read the quoted book in question, in order to better appreciate the author's cultural milieu ?
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yep, thought so.
Apropos of nothing much, one of my favourite The Simpson's scenes is where Mr Burns has a roomful of monkeys with typewriters. he checks what one monkey has just typed & sees "
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," - says "rubbish" & bins it.
i guess actually the closest movie equivalent is the
tag line, but the only place I see those is IMDB & I've get to see one that calls for a classical eduation