Charles Dickens/Oliver Twist

„Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons I will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.”

Collins, 1981.
Erstveröffentlichung Richard Bentley, 1838.

Zugetragen von Dr. NO

Tim Parks/Dreams of Rivers & Seas

“On reception of his mother’s brief phone call announcing his father’s death, John James took a deep breath, booked himself onto the first available flight for Delhi, had Elaine drive him to Heathrow, travelled towards the coming night and arrived at Indira Ghandi Airport to find the weather much cooler than expected.”

Published by Vintage Books 2009,
First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Harvill Secker

Zugetragen von Libellenauge.

Monika Helfer / Bevor ich schlafen kann

“Das Glück, meine Liebe, wird die Frau zur Deckenlampe hinauf sagen, wenn es überhaupt kommt, kommt nur einmal, höchstens zweimal, und wenn es tatsächlich zweimal kommt, dann vergeht vom einen zum anderen Mal eine ziemlich lange Zeit.”

“Bevor ich schlafen kann”, Deuticke Verlag, Wien 2010

Zugetragen von der Marshallin, die dazu schreibt: “Ich habe es als eine Liebeserklärung an ihre viel zu früh verstorbene Tochter gelesen.”