The Iron Man

Ted Hughes (1968)

Opening lines from books
1 min readOct 4, 2017

“The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness.”

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