“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
Source: Finnegans Wake
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William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
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“Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Eve's Diary
Source: The Diary of Adam and Eve
Douglas Coupland book Generation A
Generation A (2009)
Context: Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media might do us all such tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much as the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Syracuse University commencement address, May 8 1994 [Source of the book's title]
“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
