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Quotation from The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.”
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Part One, opening sentence
The novel's famous first sentence, which states the catastrophe at once and leaves the question of its meaning to the rest of the book.
Citation: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Part One, opening sentence. (id the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey-q1)
Portrait: Thornton Wilder - 1948, Published by Bridgeport Telegram, Public domain.
