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Agschmid

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Wed Aug 27, 2014, 11:48 AM Aug 2014

Pop Quiz Time...

We've translated these 12 famous first lines from novels into emojis. Can you name them?




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Answers:
1.) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
2.) “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis.
3.) “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita.
4.) “A screaming comes across the sky.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.
5.) “It was a pleasure to burn.” - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

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