Mr. Farrington has been humiliated at his office. He will never finish copying the contract by the end of the workday. His mind begins to wander to “the glare and rattle of the public-house.”
James Joyce, “Counterparts,” in Dubliners (1914).
That sentence later began a novel:
Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944).
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