Snoopy: It was a dark and stormy night. / Lucy Van Pelt: "No wonder your stories never sell... They all begin the same way.." / Snoopy: It was a dark and stormy noon. // - Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000): Peanuts
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スヌーピー：暗い嵐の夜だった。／ ルーシー：「あなたの小説が一度も売れないのも無理ないわ…いつも書き出しが同じなんだもの‥」／ スヌーピー：暗い嵐の昼だった。／／ - チャールズ・Ｍ・シュルツ (1922 – 2000): 『ピーナッツ』（【訳】谷川俊太郎 (1931 - )）
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