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Aug. 14th, 2006
A book meme of my own
Aug. 14th, 2006 05:27 pmFifteen first lines of books or short stories - just supply the title and the author.
1. "Put down that wrench!"
2. The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might as easily bring down the man making it as the intended target.
3. My attention was drawn to the spots on my chest wheb I was in my bath, singing, if I remember rightly, the Toreador song from the opera Carmen.
4. As a teenager, I was a great fan of science fiction and fantasy.
5. The tall and dour non-com wore Imperial dress greens and carried his communications panel like a field-marshall's baton.
6. It was January in northern New York State, sixty-five years ago.
7. A January gale was bearing up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing in its bosom rain squalls whose big drops rattled loudly on the tarpaulin clothing of those among the officers and med whose duty kept them on deck.
8. It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that morning and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer's.
9. Slowly, deliberately, Starr crushed out the butt of his cigarette.
10. "But if he thought the woman was being murdered - "
11. Watson had been watching his companion intently ever since he had sat down to the breakfast table.
12. One high horn shriled and ceased.
13. There was a village once, not very long ago for those with long memories, nor very far away for those with long legs.
14. Down by the corner of the street,
15. There was a king called Fornjot who ruled over Finland and Kvenland, the countries stretching to the east of what we call the Gulf of Bothnia, which lies opposite the White Sea.
ETA: Again, I have italicised the ones that people have got.
1. "Put down that wrench!"
2. The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might as easily bring down the man making it as the intended target.
3. My attention was drawn to the spots on my chest wheb I was in my bath, singing, if I remember rightly, the Toreador song from the opera Carmen.
4. As a teenager, I was a great fan of science fiction and fantasy.
5. The tall and dour non-com wore Imperial dress greens and carried his communications panel like a field-marshall's baton.
6. It was January in northern New York State, sixty-five years ago.
7. A January gale was bearing up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing in its bosom rain squalls whose big drops rattled loudly on the tarpaulin clothing of those among the officers and med whose duty kept them on deck.
8. It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that morning and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocer's.
9. Slowly, deliberately, Starr crushed out the butt of his cigarette.
10. "But if he thought the woman was being murdered - "
11. Watson had been watching his companion intently ever since he had sat down to the breakfast table.
12. One high horn shriled and ceased.
13. There was a village once, not very long ago for those with long memories, nor very far away for those with long legs.
14. Down by the corner of the street,
15. There was a king called Fornjot who ruled over Finland and Kvenland, the countries stretching to the east of what we call the Gulf of Bothnia, which lies opposite the White Sea.
ETA: Again, I have italicised the ones that people have got.
