"We think because we have words, not the other way around." - L'Engle
It is that time again. It is the time for me to subjugate all of my faithful and unfaithful readers (both those who like me and those who do not) to ten first lines of the books I have lying about my room, because that is what I like to do sometimes and I can't explain it because it is just in my genes. In effect, you are all hostages. Morever, you are hostages being asked to guess where you are being held hostage. This, roughly translated, means: I am going to post ten first lines (this does not include introductions or prefaces of any sort) of the most accessible books in my room and ask you to guess from which books they were quoted. READY GO.
1. "Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic."
2. "Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have."
3. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
4. "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfasionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
5. "All this happened, more or less."
6. "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."
7. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
8. "Earthy Anecdote / Every time the bucks went chattering / Over Oklahoma / A firecat bristled in the way."
9. "A melody is heard, played upon a flute."
10. "It's not sex and the city - it's sex in your city, your bedroom, your dorm room, or anywhere else two people get it on."
Number Ten is, admittedly, taken from an introduction, but it was too glorious for me to pass up. Answers will be posted soon, regardless of whether anyone cares.
1. "Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic."
2. "Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have."
3. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
4. "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfasionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
5. "All this happened, more or less."
6. "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."
7. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
8. "Earthy Anecdote / Every time the bucks went chattering / Over Oklahoma / A firecat bristled in the way."
9. "A melody is heard, played upon a flute."
10. "It's not sex and the city - it's sex in your city, your bedroom, your dorm room, or anywhere else two people get it on."
Number Ten is, admittedly, taken from an introduction, but it was too glorious for me to pass up. Answers will be posted soon, regardless of whether anyone cares.