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Prester John by John Buchan

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Apr 25, 11

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One of the best opening paragraphs ever. This could have come straight from Robert Louis Stevenson:

"I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fiftful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it...."

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