“It had to be one or the other. Did it have to be one or the other? Even the question as to whether it had to be one or the other had to be one or the other!”

— Adam Roberts , book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 3, Chapter 7, “To Garland 400” (p. 328).
Jack Glass (2012)

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British writer known for speculative fiction and parody nov… 1965

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“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.”

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First lines, Ch. 1 : Out to Sea
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Context: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.