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Oniya

Attentive yet to listen to the trunk
We stood, expecting further speech, when us
A noise surprised; as when a man perceives
The wild boar and the hunt approach his place
Of station'd watch, who of the beasts and boughs
Loud rustling round him hears.

Dante's Comeddia, Book 1, Canto XIV, Harvard Classics Edition.
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ladia2287

Creatore, che hai fatto la luce, o Signore, che illumini I giorni, quando apparve la luce nel cielo hai creato dal nulla ogni cosa.

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saphireMARIE

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Lord of the Flies - William Golding

AmberStarfire

Quote from: saphireMARIE on September 22, 2013, 05:21:29 PM
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

We were forced to read that in school.


saphireMARIE

Quote from: AmberStarfire on September 22, 2013, 05:22:34 PM
We were forced to read that in school.
Same, I caused a whole debate over if the book was sexist or not just because I couldn't find any female characters XD

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AmberStarfire

Quote from: saphireMARIE on September 22, 2013, 05:32:08 PM
Same, I caused a whole debate over if the book was sexist or not just because I couldn't find any female characters XD

Nice. :)


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The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume B, Ed. 3, General Editor: Martin Puchner.
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come now, bite through these wires;
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I have two books on top of one another that are equally close... >.>

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