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Old 07-05-2012, 11:08   #45
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy View Post
"I was sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me."

Edgar Allen Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum.
Sounds a laugh a minute book!
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