[Many know famous novels by their FIRST lines. But what a=
bout how they end? Here are the LAST lines of a dozen famous books. S=
ome well-known, some obscure, some self-evident, some cryptic. Your j=
ob is to guess BOOK (and AUTHOR if you know it). That is tough for me=
=2E See how your memory holds up.
This is a quiz for YOUR brain, no=
t your ability to google or (if you’re really old) open pages of an e=
ncyclopedia or anything else that might cheat you from hard mental exercise=
=2E]
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XAMPLE: "But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the g=
radual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his pass=
ing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life.=
That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.&=
quot;
ANSWER: Crime and Punishment, F=
yodor Dostoyevsky
1. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back c=
easelessly into the past."
2. "After all, tomorrow is another day."=
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3. &=
quot;He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there al=
l night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."=
4. "T=
he creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from =
pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.&quo=
t;
5. =
"But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in tha=
t enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his bear will a=
lways be playing."
6. "The old man was dreaming about the lions."
7. &qu=
ot;He loved Big Brother."
8. "It is not often that someone comes along =
who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
9. "It is =
a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far =
better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
10. "Later on he will=
understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake=
=2E"
11. "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powe=
rs, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into=
one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fix=
ed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful =
and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
12. "Oh, my girls=
, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than =
this."
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows=
Me, This I Love!"
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