Novels: Opening



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1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)



2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)



3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)



4. Many years later, as he faced the

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