Here are the first lines of ten of my favorite books or poems. Can you guess the title and author without looking them up?
"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
"April is the cruelest month, breeding/lilacs out of the dead land, mixing"
"1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with."
"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
"Yes, of course, if it is fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay.
"I have seen the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,"
"Clare: The Library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble."
"A woman's face with nature's own hand painted"
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."



I thought there was no way, because I'm so bad with first lines. But you have the one and only line I've memorized from a book I've read--#3. And I didn't even memorized it on purpose; just read it so many times when I did my thesis on it, that it stuck. Now I think back, and it's truly a great opening.
Becky LevineFun. :)
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