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British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

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In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “ Challenge ,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker. Its premise ...

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