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dogknob

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46. "Who is John Galt?"

Tue Nov 10, 2020, 06:13 PM

Nov 2020

"The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish his face. The cashier at Four Seasons Total Landscaping had said it simply, without expression. But from the sunset far at the end of the street, yellow glints caught his eyes, and the eyes looked straight at Eddie Willers, mocking and still—as if the question had been addressed to the causeless uneasiness within him."

OK, a shitty novel. But unfortunately relevant.

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Openings of famous novels -- with "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" added. [View all] dogknob Nov 2020 OP

"Call me Ishmael . . . hatrack Nov 2020 #1

LOL! "Jack Torrance thought: dogknob Nov 2020 #4

"Call me 4Seasons" marybourg Nov 2020 #2

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen at Four Seasons Total Lands soothsayer Nov 2020 #3

It was a Dark and Stormy night lapfog_1 Nov 2020 #5

LOL! dogknob Nov 2020 #8

Great!!! PCIntern Nov 2020 #52

Aw, you did it right! Hugin Nov 2020 #53

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, . . . hatrack Nov 2020 #6

Haha! "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head... dogknob Nov 2020 #14

"All happy families are alike . . . hatrack Nov 2020 #17

Cien Anos de Solidad--one of my favorite novels! tblue37 Nov 2020 #47

Well, Prince, ananda Nov 2020 #7

We were somewhere around Four Seasons Total Landscaping, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs fishwax Nov 2020 #9

Beat me to it! bronxiteforever Nov 2020 #13

KNR Lucinda Nov 2020 #10

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Blue Owl Nov 2020 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author bronxiteforever Nov 2020 #12

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, flibbitygiblets Nov 2020 #15

"Last night I dreamt I went to malaise Nov 2020 #16

With Betsy DeVos as Mrs. Danvers! hatrack Nov 2020 #20

You win the thread malaise Nov 2020 #48

... mcar Nov 2020 #54

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. MizLibby Nov 2020 #18

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Vdizzle Nov 2020 #19

Ford Madox Ford DemoTex Nov 2020 #21

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left Four Seasons Total Landscaping Klaralven Nov 2020 #22

Chorus: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror? dogknob Nov 2020 #23

3 May, Bistritz -- grumpyduck Nov 2020 #24

Play, not a Novel TlalocW Nov 2020 #25

Yay! "The gale tore at him... dogknob Nov 2020 #27

"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating . . . hatrack Nov 2020 #26

"In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. Aristus Nov 2020 #45

I, Tiberius Claudius... Tanuki Nov 2020 #28

"Such BARGAINS!" dogknob Nov 2020 #32

"In my younger and more vulnerable years... coti Nov 2020 #29

"Last night I dreamed I went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping" Retrograde Nov 2020 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author bellmartin Nov 2020 #31

'I am always drawn back to places Ilsa Nov 2020 #33

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted Ilsa Nov 2020 #34

"So it goes Ishoutandscream2 Nov 2020 #35

"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome Ilsa Nov 2020 #36

"No one would have believed..." JHB Nov 2020 #37

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton University..." First Speaker Nov 2020 #38

A squat grey building of only one storey. muriel_volestrangler Nov 2020 #39

The man in black fled across the desert... Roland99 Nov 2020 #40

"I don't do it for the money.... dogknob Nov 2020 #41

"In the last quarter of the twentieth century, at a time when Western civilization was declining... dogknob Nov 2020 #42

The Great Gatsby Staph Nov 2020 #43

When the sweet showers of April have pierced betsuni Nov 2020 #44

"Who is John Galt?" dogknob Nov 2020 #46

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream ... lpbk2713 Nov 2020 #49

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by NameAlreadyTaken Nov 2020 #50

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct . . . hatrack Nov 2020 #51

"Christmas won't be Christmas without presents mcar Nov 2020 #55

Not a novel, but the opening sura of the Quran carpetbagger Nov 2020 #56

"The towers of Four Seasons Total Landscaping aspired above the morning mist; Iterate Nov 2020 #57

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be Hugin Nov 2020 #58

"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name was Four Seasons Total Landscaping... Hugin Nov 2020 #59

Mira was hiding in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Coventina Nov 2020 #60

There are time I remember why it is I love this place. Wel done, I say. Hekate Nov 2020 #61

"The sky above Four Seasons Total Landscaping was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Hugin Nov 2020 #62

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." Hugin Nov 2020 #63

"All this happened at Fours Seasons Total Landscaping, more or less." Hugin Nov 2020 #64

Hilarious thread malaise Nov 2020 #65

"Da plane! Boss! Da plane!" Hugin Nov 2020 #66

There was a desert wind blowing that night Brother Buzz Nov 2020 #67

YEAR OF GLAD A.M. Kittenplan Nov 2020 #68

"I can feel the heat closing in... dogknob Nov 2020 #69

"The most merciful thing in the world..." Retrograde Nov 2020 #70

+1 Hugin Nov 2020 #71

Best yet! Codeine Nov 2020 #72

See Dick Run... for president. chriscan64 Nov 2020 #73