The Dark Tower (book)
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Auteur plagiarises the first line of The Dark Tower for her rewritten version of Graelyn Scythes's dream journal's first entry. It thus reads "The green-robed man fled across the rooftops, and Archimedes followed". (PROSE: White Canvas)
Behind the scenes
The notorious first line of Stephen King's The Dark Tower is "The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed".