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Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.

William Golding

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Great
Effort
Triumphant
Pleasure
Pile
Lasts
Stepped
Last
Joined
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Chanted
Two
Burden
Staggered
Together
Mountain
Crashed
Back
Laughing
Steep

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