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In reply to the discussion: Openings of famous novels -- with "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" added. [View all]JHB
(37,179 posts)37. "No one would have believed..."
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping carpark.
-- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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Openings of famous novels -- with "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" added. [View all]
dogknob
Nov 2020
OP
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soothsayer
Nov 2020
#3
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fishwax
Nov 2020
#9
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Nov 2020
#15
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Nov 2020
#26
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#38
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Nov 2020
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hatrack
Nov 2020
#51
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Hugin
Nov 2020
#58
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Hugin
Nov 2020
#59