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    What Alex Haley novel was original going to be titled "The Surly Bonds of Earth:?

    Question #128688. Asked by endoverend. (Dec 31 12 12:01 AM)


    mctavish99

    		The first two lines of the John Gillespie Magee poem "High Flight" are:-

    " Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;"

    Author Arthur Hailey used these lines as an epigraph to his best selling novel "Airport".

    I can find no connection between the quotation and Alex Haley, author of "Roots" and no relation to Mr Hailey.

    Dec 31 12, 7:52 AM

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