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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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Title

The title of the book is a line from a nursery rhyme,

Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn,
Wire, briar, limber lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew East
One flew West
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Chief Bromden's grandmother sang this song to him when he was young.

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