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Auto-Tuned Opening Lines - The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Lyrics:

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday

starts off by sounding like Sunday,

there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

I felt that from the moment I woke.

And yet, when I started functioning a little more sharply, I misgave.

After all, the odds were that it was I who was wrong,

and not everyone else – though I did not see how that could be.

I went on waiting, tinged with doubt.

But presently I had my first bit of objective evidence –

a distant clock struck what sounded to me just like eight.

I listened hard and suspiciously.

Soon another clock began, on a loud, decisive note.

In a leisurely fashion it gave an indisputable eight.

Then I knew things were awry.

The way I came to miss the end of the world –

well, the end of the world I had known

for close on thirty years –was sheer accident:

like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.

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