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I decided to start my own LJ meme for a change. Here are the first lines from ten books I like. Try to guess what they're from if you like (tho some of them are pretty obvious), and post your own in your journal if you want.
1. "Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father."
2. "On the last day of summer, ten hours before fall, my grandfather took me out to the wall."
3. "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
4. "One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary."
5. "Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale."
6. "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida."
7. "From inside a London tea room, two well-dressed women look with mild disdain at a figure in the rain outside."
8. "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart; Boy, there's two gentlemen to see you."
9. "May I, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?"
10. "This is a sequel, not a formulation of prolegomena."
1. "Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father."
2. "On the last day of summer, ten hours before fall, my grandfather took me out to the wall."
3. "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
4. "One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary."
5. "Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale."
6. "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida."
7. "From inside a London tea room, two well-dressed women look with mild disdain at a figure in the rain outside."
8. "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart; Boy, there's two gentlemen to see you."
9. "May I, monsieur, offer my services without running the risk of intruding?"
10. "This is a sequel, not a formulation of prolegomena."