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Dropdeadredtx is offline Dropdeadredtx Post #1  March 23,2011, 6:16am
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I am going to post the ending lines of some of the most famous books in Western literature. Without cyber assistance, can you name the book and author?

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#1 - 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.'
 
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#2 - 'But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.'
 
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#3 - 'It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.'
 
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#3 - 'It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.'
Charlotte's Web.
E.B. White

(don't know the previous two...)
 
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Yeah, I only knew Charlotte's Web too. I need to do better!
 
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Now that I've gone to see the references for the first two I feel even worse- I've read these books!
 
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TheThinker wrote :
Charlotte's Web.
E.B. White

(don't know the previous two...)
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Now that I've gone to see the references for the first two I feel even worse- I've read these books!
Aww, and I started easy, too!!!
 
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Aww, and I started easy, too!!!
LOL..i know, especially with #2.
 
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I looked up the first & second one and I read the 2nd eons ago..had never read the first one though..

Then again, I read mostly aviation books and biographies!
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#2 - 'But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.'
Huck Finn, right? It's been years since I read either it or Tom Sawyer. Are you also planning to use famous opening lines?
 
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