“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
(Dickens always seemed a little intimidating for me: and we never really studied it at school … )