Monday, April 16, 2012

First Lines: Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life


A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamount over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.

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