Writer's Block: Once upon a time…

[gridlore]

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I've got three. Can you name them?

"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead..."

"Once there was a dead man."

"On the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre Dame de la Garde signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, from Symrna, Trieste, and Naples."

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[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

God, I know the first one, but... *googles in frustration* Ah, of course. (No spoiler, since I needed help.)

The second refers to Jerome Corbell, protagonist of A World Out Of Time.

No clue on the third.

[seawasp]

The first one is "The Stairs My Destination" AKA "Tigger! Tigger" by Alfred E. Milne-Bester. The whole line goes;

"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead. He fought
for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap. He was delirious and
rotting, coming downstairs now, bump bump bump, on the back of his head,
behind Christopher Robin."

[seawasp]

The third is OBVIOUSLY The Count of Monte-Cristo.