Which book starts with these lines

You are not supposed to give us the answer with the quote Gus.

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

West Feliciana Parish is some twenty-five miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

That is the opening line in "Who Speaks For The Negro?". by Robert Penn Warren.

It was the closest book to my computer.

sorry gustav, I tried.

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Greenwitch wrote:

You are not supposed to give us the answer with the quote Gus.

It was becoming quite obvious that the panel was stumped. I gave the answer to put your minds at ease.

I'm sorry you had to suffer.

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Yes, now we all can sleep better, knowing of the answer
gustav had put upon us.

Where is this from?

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It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire."

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Gus, my hat is off to you.

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Thanks, Merry. What can I say?

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I don't know what you can say. But I can say, "Well done, o stout and noble friend."

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Gus, when your parallel universe touches this, it's puzzling.

Somebody there quoted a line which does not sound to me like a first sentence- CJ?

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CalamityJane wrote:

Yes, now we all can sleep better, knowing of the answer
gustav had put upon us.

Where is this from?

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It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire."

You're getting awfully highbrow on us, aren't you? (All that highfalutin Nobel Prize winning lit.; as if Harlequin Romances and Harry Potter weren't good enough... :wink: )

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Try this one (it's a narrative essay by a famous writer, not a novel):

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In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

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Calam, I do not know the answer. And when I do not know the answer, I am the first to admit that I do not know the answer. And I flatly refuse to cheat and go Google it up or go frantically tearing books out of my shelves to find the missing passage. So I shall be patient and await the answer.

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Mills75 wrote:

Try this one (it's a narrative essay by a famous writer, not a novel):

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In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

George Orwell?

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Shooting an elephant

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I am so sorry Merry Andrew to answer this late.
It is the "Tin Drum" or "Blechtrommel" from Guenter Grass.

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CalamityJane wrote:

"Point Counter Point" by Aldus Huxley.

You gotta be kidding me. What are you? A liberian? One more miss smarty pants. "In other, olden times there were only phantoms. In the beginning, that is. if there ever was a beginning. I was always a wild, rocky coast, desolate and forbidding to the man of the pavements, eloquent and enchanting to the Taliessins

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Hm, this one is very difficult Amigo, and I am not sure
if I get it right. Here is my guess. Henry Miller and
"Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus" ???

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You got it jane.

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Mea culpa, Jane. I should have recognized that one, having read the book both in German and in translation.

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" In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began happening in a small Norwegian coastal town. A stranger by the name of ????? appeared, a singular character who shook the town by his eccentric behavior and then vanished as suddenly as had come." This one is more obscure.

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"Shooting the Elephant" by Orwell is correct.

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