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oh the games we play...
it's time to see who the literati are. i've chosen twenty-one books, adored, off my bookshelf. the first sentence from each is given. clearly, you are to guess the book... ("always play with their minds.")
1. One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch's Pond. guessed by lauradms
2. No one remembers her beginnings. guessed by sour_princess
3. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. guessed by kiran
4. I still get nightmares.
5. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
6. The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself. guessed by canadianophelia
7. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. guessed by purelush
8. Smoke has as many different scents as skin.
9. Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend - the weekend of the Yale game. guessed by kiran
10. Cheyenne Mountain sits on the eastern slope of Colorado's Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs.
11. Her lover one day takes O for a walk in a section of the city where they never go - the Montsouris Park, the Monceau Park. guessed by canadianophelia
12. So there I was, home again after all those years.
13. The birds saw the murder.
14. Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? guessed by lauradms
15. "Dance! Dance, my sister, dance until you die!"
16. I had seen her just the day before - a day of pale blue skies and summer breezes. guessed by sour_princess
17. Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea whil we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you...
18. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. guessed by sour_princess
19. I know I was all right on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual.
20. "Nothing to be done."
21. He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. guessed by kiran
it's time to see who the literati are. i've chosen twenty-one books, adored, off my bookshelf. the first sentence from each is given. clearly, you are to guess the book... ("always play with their minds.")
1. One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch's Pond. guessed by lauradms
2. No one remembers her beginnings. guessed by sour_princess
3. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. guessed by kiran
4. I still get nightmares.
5. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
6. The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself. guessed by canadianophelia
7. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. guessed by purelush
8. Smoke has as many different scents as skin.
9. Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend - the weekend of the Yale game. guessed by kiran
10. Cheyenne Mountain sits on the eastern slope of Colorado's Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs.
11. Her lover one day takes O for a walk in a section of the city where they never go - the Montsouris Park, the Monceau Park. guessed by canadianophelia
12. So there I was, home again after all those years.
13. The birds saw the murder.
14. Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? guessed by lauradms
15. "Dance! Dance, my sister, dance until you die!"
16. I had seen her just the day before - a day of pale blue skies and summer breezes. guessed by sour_princess
17. Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea whil we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you...
18. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. guessed by sour_princess
19. I know I was all right on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual.
20. "Nothing to be done."
21. He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. guessed by kiran