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first lines
i am perpetuating this meme which i caught from meta. the point is to write down ten opening lines of books and see if you can guess them. so, cmon, guess. to be fair [fair?], i did not include any poetry :]
- Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
- In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square.
- Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
- "I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were white with fool's-parsley and meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splednour, such as our climate affords once or twice a year, when leaf and flower and bird and sun-lit stone and shadow seem all to proclaim the glory of God, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.
- Tao called Tao is not Tao.
- Die Welt ist alles was der Fall ist. [The world is all that is the case.]
- It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
- Make it fast.
- Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone hoped it would stay for the big weekend--the weekend of the Yale game.
- Gustave Aschenbach--or von Aschenbach, as he had been known officially since his fiftieth birthday--had set out alone from his house in Prince Regent Street, Munich, for an extended walk.
the answers are hidden in white in the extended version...
comments
got 5 and 6 (god, you're a dork), #2 was able to get the author but not the book... which is silly, since I read it.
meta said | April 26, 2005 05:46 PM
Try this:
1. Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs. Or at least they think they do.
2. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
3. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree.
Reb said | April 28, 2005 12:10 PM