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>last sentence/paragraph of a novel is the same as the first

>> No.11016627

>>11016621
Name zero (0) novels that do this. You literally can't

>> No.11016643

>>11016621
this is actually a neat idea, thank you.

>> No.11016647

>>11016627

>> No.11016651

i like how each movement of a clockwork orange opens with the same phrase. very apt.

>> No.11016656

Name literally juan example of this

>> No.11016658

>>11016627
The poem portion of Pale Fire does this, and does it well.

>> No.11016681

>>11016627
hm. pale fire THE POEM does. also i seem to recall whole blocks of repeated text in Dick's Unteleported Man, but maybe youre right..
The last 4 books of the TANAKH recycle..
>thinking.. thinking..

>> No.11016745

>>11016621
Stupid frogposter

>> No.11016877

>>11016656
You could sort of describe Finnegans Wake as doing this, as the last line and first line are two parts of one sentence

>A way a lone a last a love a long the
>riverrun, past Eve and Adams, through swerve of shore and bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle & Environs.

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>>11016647
Way to show me up

>> No.11016906

>>11016627
The Epic of Gilgamesh
;)

>> No.11017312

>>11016656
The Outsiders

>> No.11017344

Infinite Jest and Finnegans Wake are the obvious ones.

>> No.11017904

>>11016621
>last couple of words of a novel is the title

>> No.11017917

>>11017344
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies
>and the tide was way out
:thinking:

>> No.11018294

>>11016621
The Dark Tower
>The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.