"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."

(Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955)

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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

(Louisa M. Alcott, "Little Women", 1868)

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"Eine blutrote, dampfende Flüssigkeit.
Männer hocken um sie herum."

(Heinrich Spoerl, Die Feuerzangenbowle, 1933)

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"The house was in waiting; low, an still, and grey, with clean curtains in the long windows, and a fresh line of white across the edge of the steps.

(A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, 1964)

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"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."

(H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898)

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Anmerkung: Spielbergs Filmfassung hin oder her - wenn ich diese Worte lese, höre ich sie immer noch mit Richard Burtons Stimme in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Manches ist eben einfach unersetzlich.

"Es friert, außerordentliche 18 Grad Celsius, und es schneit. In einer Sprache, die nicht mehr die meine ist, heißt der Schnee quanik, er schichtet sich zu Stapeln, fällt in großen, fast schwerelosen Kristallen und bedeckt die Erde mit einer Schicht aus pulverisiertem, weißem Frost."

(Peter Høeg, Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee, 1992)

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"The African American marine in the grey Mercedes will soon die of bites from Naja siamensis, but we don't know that yet, Pichai and I (the future is impenetrable, says the Buddha)."

(John Burdett, Bangkok Eight, 2003)

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