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I cheated and looked at the source: There are 60 quotes. So expect ~280 refreshes to collect 'em all.
should i do it? im looking for the "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years" opening lines
"The hungry vixen had to be patient as she searched for prey among the dried-out gullies and the bare ravines."
https://www.amazon.com/Lasts-More-than-Hundred-Years/dp/0253...
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From memory: The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a bad channel
Close! (I had to look it up.) "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." ( Neuromancer , William Gibson)
I'd be interested to know what everyone's favorite opening lines of all time are. (bonus - to see how much of it you can quote without looking :) For me, its: Whann that aprill with hir shoures soote, The drought of march hath perced to the roote, And zepherus eek with his sweete breath, inspired hath in every holt and heth, the tendre cropes, and the sonne hath in the ram, hir halve cours ironne, Than preketh hem na…
"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse-Five
I tried to press space, arrow keys, enter, tab, etc to get to next quote. None of those worked
English literature heavily overrepresented
> so hopefully you can refresh a few times and get a fresh one every time If you randomly sample from only 60 quotes, then after 10 refreshes there will be a greater than 50% chance of at least one repeat, and by 20 refreshes it's up to 95%. This is an example of the birthday paradox[1]. On the flip side, if someone wants to see all 60 quotes, they will have to refresh the page an average of 281 times, mostly (~80%)…
Really cool! > The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. I did not refresh to check if you already have that, but I really find it very strong. Its from Kings "Dark Tower - Black" (edit: its "The Gunslinger", not Black. its named "Schwarz" in the german translations) the first of 8 books in the series. If you dont know it; its not like the usual King books. It mixes fantasy elements (inspi…
> so hopefully you can refresh a few times and get a fresh one every time If you randomly sample from only 60 quotes, then after 10 refreshes there will be a greater than 50% chance of at least one repeat, and by 20 refreshes it's up to 95%. This is an example of the birthday paradox[1]. On the flip side, if someone wants to see all 60 quotes, they will have to refresh the page an average of 281 times, mostly (~80%)…
Frustrating without a way to get to the list of works, because it's not clear when you've seen them all. You start having to guess how many there are, based on how many you have seen and how many have repeated, and the distance between seeing ones you haven't yet seen before. A problem made worse, the more quotes there are, as if you have N quotes, then you expect to see the one you see the most often approximately e…
I cheated and looked at the source: There are 60 quotes. So expect ~280 refreshes to collect 'em all.