Le Scaphandre et le Papillon - 1997
Jean-Dominique Bauby
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"He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings
but physically paralyzed with the exception of some
movement in his head and eyes"
Cannery Row - 1945
John Steinbeck
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"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem,
a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone,
a habit, a nostalgia, a dream..."
The Day of the Triffids - 1951
John Wyndham
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"Fantastic, frightening, but entirely plausible!"
The Old Man and the Sea - 1951
Ernest Hemingway
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"No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols
arrived at beforehand and stuck in... I tried to make a real
old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks.
But if I made them good and true enough they would mean
many things".
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