Babbitt roused, his stomach constricted with alarm. As he relaxed, he was pierced by the familiar and irritating rattle of some one cranking a Ford: snap-ah-ah, snap-ah-ah, snap-ah-ah. And then the dragon arrived. = Babbit

And that would've made that book thousands upon thousands of time better. I had to read it for a college class back in 2001, I think. Ugh. And I can still remember his name is George Follansbee Babbitt, of all things.

nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee BAT-MAAAAAN!!
nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee nee-nee DRA-GONNNNS!!

'Call me Ishmael.'

'You kidding?'

And then the dragons arrived

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. It began when the dragons arrived. (H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep)

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. And then the dragons arrived.

Arrivals

		PLATFORM	EXPECTED
13:50	Dragons (northbound)	1	On time
13:55	Dragons (southbound)	2	On time
14:20	Dragons (northbound)	1	On time
14:25	Dragons (southbound)	2	On time
14:50	Dragons (northbound)	1	On time
14:55	Dragons (southbound)	2	On time
15:20	Dragons (northbound)	1	On time
15:25	Dragons (southbound)	2	On time

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo and then dragons came all along the road too.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day, for the dragons had arrived. ("Jane Eyre")

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute past, then the dragons arrived ..

[John Keats - Ode to A Dragon]

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.

A huge green fierce dragon bars the way!

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience of dragons.

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[Kant, Critique of Pure Reason]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic dragon.

[The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka]

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

The yellow dragon that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow dragon that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be the sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition, which I have not the time to write down, due to the pestilence of dragons lately arrived.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then the dragons arrived.

ACT I

SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.

FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO

BERNARDO
Who's there?

Enter to them DRAGONS

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I really wanted to add: FRANCISCO What the fuck?