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selections from Roth's meditation-on-death novella, Everyman, accompanied ... 
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provides a pretty accurate one-line concept statement of the story: ... The first time 
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wardrobe out of a Wes Anderson film throughout much of the novella: khaki 
Bermudas, ... The title of the novel comes from a line from a record that Ron, Mr. 
Patimkin's eldest ... with The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her 
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back all of modern literature to Chekhov's novella My Life, which appeared in 
Russian in 1896. .... Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon 
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and ..... Philip Roth's assertion that he found a napkin in a diner that contained, in 
a ... The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. Schopenhauer
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Like Wuthering Heights, Henry James's novella about a governess and the two...

Question: The first line of this Philip Roth novella is "The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses"
Answer: "Goodbye, Columbus"