"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon." William Golding Lord of the Flies. When we read this at school I remember being the only one out of the class who said she'd enjoyed it at the end -same with Animal Farm!
I have another of Golding's books "the Paper men" in my bookshelf and th opening lines make me think of Eric for some reason (no offence Eric -it's a bit autobiographical on his part i think
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"I knew at once it was one of those nights. The drink, such as it had been, was dying out of my brain and leaving a kind of sediment of irritation, vague discomfort and even remorse. It had not been - no, indeed-a bender or booze-up. By the excercise of special pleading I could have persuaded other people that my evening's consumption had been no more than reasonable with regard to the duties of a host: an English author entertaining a professor of English Literature from overseas."
