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Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature

Hardcore Literature

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1984: A Novel About Life and Death

The opening to 1984 by anthony bergie begins with a clockwork orange. The book is structured like a musical piece but it's also kind of funny as well really bizarre and surreal humor from the get-go. We want to read on don't we  it's melodic it's informal it's immediate now again keeping with 20th century fiction let's talk about 1984 i love the opening to 1984 george awl had actually wanted the work to be called 1948 at least that's what anthony b Bergie says.

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