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[Thomas Eckhardt]

Just riffing re first sentences:

'Paul Valéry once told André Breton that he couldn’t be a 
novelist because he refused to write, “The Marquise went 
out at five o’clock.”'

http://www.themillions.com/2012/08/the-marquise-went-out-at-five-oclock-on-the-form-and-function-of-sentences.html

Here is the first sentence of Julio Cortázars "The 
Winners":

'“The marquise went out at five,” Carlos Lopez thought. 
“Where in the hell did I read that?”'

http://www.buenosairesreview.org/2015/02/the-marquise-was-never-content-to-stay-at-home/

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