@DocCarms@bookstodon “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”
The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen