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First lines meme
Apr. 24th, 2005 01:25 amFirst lines from 15 20 of my favourite books. Some rather more obvious than others. Cookies if you can guess the title and author. :D
1. I sit in a pitch-pine panelled kitchen-living-room, with an otter asleep upon its back among the cushions on the sofa, forepaws in the air, and with the expression of tightly shut concentration that very small babies wear in sleep.
2. Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
3. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advise that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
5. Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster? If you have, you will remember it.
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1. I sit in a pitch-pine panelled kitchen-living-room, with an otter asleep upon its back among the cushions on the sofa, forepaws in the air, and with the expression of tightly shut concentration that very small babies wear in sleep.
2. Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
3. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advise that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
5. Have you ever tasted a Whitstable oyster? If you have, you will remember it.
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