Talk:preapologize

Possible early literary citations
Looking for early books cites, Google books seems to have hits for these: …though I can’t look at the actual books, so no cites for now; leaving here for reference, in case someone can look into them someday.
 * Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates (1995? 1996)
 * The Ruby in the Smoke, Philip Pullman (1985 (p. 43, p. 72)? 1987? 1988? 1994? 1996? 1999)
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 03:38, 7 July 2014 (UTC)