First impressions

Published on
November 8, 1996
Last updated
May 22, 2015

The Titanic was not holed by this contemporary obstruction:

"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth. Anna."

The winner of last week'scompetition, who correctly identified the first words of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu ,is Peter Ainsworth of theUniversity of Manchester.

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