It seems The World According to Boring John has been 'made smaller'.
Yes, at the final hurdle some 10,000 words were culled, deleted - deemed not to be 'quite right'.
And that means more words for the Boring John Extras ebook. Extras like these gems that had to be removed for reasons of copyright...
1. First line / last lines
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
and
“The old man was dreaming about the lions.”
(Great book, by the way.)
And Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, starts with these lines: “They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.”
and it finishes with this one
“I been away a long time.”
2. More book references...
Now both Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) get a mention
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More coming soon. Promise.
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