And now, a game. Famous first words.Name them. No cheating.
1. Night is generally my time for walking.
2. "I have been here before," I said; I had been there before...
3. At the little town of Vevay, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.
4. Call me Jonah.
5. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
6. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
7. Can there, my good Sir, be any thing more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence?
8. Manfred, prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda.
9. I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.
10. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
11. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"
12: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
13. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
14. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
15. The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
16. That's good thinking there, Cool Breeze.
17. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
18. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
19. The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.
20. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
4 comments:
some are guesses, and i really wanted to cheat:
5) The Great Gatsby
6) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
7) Lolita
9) On the Road
13) Little Women
14) Sense and Sensibility
15) In Cold Blood
17) Gone With the Wind
18) Crime and Punishment
20) Great Expectations
AH
i did horribly.
please forgive my guesses - they can be rationalized.
1. Elizabeth Simmerman: The Autobiography
2. House of Leaves
4. The Bible - The Book of Jonah
9. Frank Sinatra's biography on Dean Martin
11. Something I read in AP English involving Creoles, can't remember
18. Crime and Punishment
19. Twilight
None of them are Lolita. I know that much.
Hey, this is great. The Awakening, On the Road, The Great Gatsby! One of them is wrong, though. The line is actually "My name is Jonas," and it's a Weezer song. Not a book.
Here is a good one (from David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System"): "Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden."
Sorry it took me like two weeks to comment.
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