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Post The Last Line Of Your Favorite Prose

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 01:51 pm
@eurocelticyankee,
Sorry, euro. It's The Veldt ... Ray Bradbury
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 01:58 pm
@farmerman,
Quote:
"It is an honest town once more, and the man will have to rise early to catch it napping again".


What a great line.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:10 pm
@farmerman,
Is it a novel or a short story, because if it's a short story there's loads?
farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:11 pm
@panzade,
well... ok

Its "the Man that Corrupted Hadleysburg"

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izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:12 pm
@farmerman,
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg?
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:13 pm
@izzythepush,
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/The_Man_that_Corrupted_Hadleyburg/

I've never read it, actually never heard of it, great line though.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:15 pm
Either you'll get this straight away or not have a clue.

"Po-tee-weet?"
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:18 pm
@izzythepush,
I got it. Because it happens to be my favorite book.
And I've read it a million times Very Happy
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:19 pm
@panzade,
It does rather stand out as being different.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:19 pm
@panzade,
Its not my fav but in my top ten. Think massacre by a recluse author
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:21 pm
Izzy, a beautiful work from your side of the pond.

Quote:
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:22 pm
@farmerman,
I'll add time-travel by 4 eyes
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:24 pm
@panzade,
Sounds like a romantic, Shelley or Coleridge.

Or I could be completely off the mark and say Browning.

The more I think about it the less certain I am.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:26 pm
@panzade,
The Fire bombing of Dresden fills a significant chunk.
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:26 pm
@izzythepush,
You're a hundred years too early
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:27 pm
@izzythepush,
Quote:
The Fire bombing of Dresden fills a significant chunk.


I never think of it that way, but that's the beauty
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:41 pm
@panzade,
You had me going the wrong way, it may have been written this side of the pond, but the writer was an American.
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:44 pm
@izzythepush,
LOL
Hardly American.
He couldn't have born being called American

Quote:
"I came to persuade myself that I was in love with Vivienne simply because I wanted to burn my boats and commit myself to staying in England. And she persuaded herself (also under the influence of [Ezra] Pound) that she would save the poet by keeping him in England. To her, the marriage brought no happiness. To me, it brought the state of mind out of which came The Waste Land."[25]
Debacle
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:51 pm
@panzade,
Quote:
Re: dlowan
What's your favorite last line bunny?


While she ponders the question, I'm willing to bet it's this one. It won't be the first time she's proved me wrong.

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 23 Aug, 2013 02:57 pm
@panzade,
Mid Atlantic then, I know he pretty much committed himself to England. Murder In The Cathedral is very English.I'm not ashamed of him or anything, I just think of him as British American.
 

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