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#132840 09/09/04 10:23 PM
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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the last wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.


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(she)..was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

(and the she is question is?)
none other than Miss Scarlett O'Hara!


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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina


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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the last wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.

Er, Ridley Walker by R. Hoban?


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Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery.


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max, I wonder if that could be the encryption of a more readable sentence.


#132846 09/10/04 01:49 AM
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> that could be the encryption of a more readable sentence.




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Ridley Walker by R. Hoban?

I never could figure whether I liked the story for itself or if it was just for the challenge of working out the language. I never cared for much of Hoban's other work, mostly because of the writing style, I fear. The Mouse and His Child I loved.


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"Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows."


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A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

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