Which first sentence belongs to which book?
- I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
- A child wants to see.
- Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
- Two Elizabethans passing the time in a place without any visible character.
- In September 1828 the greatest mathematician of the country left his home town for the first time in years to participate in the German Scientific Congress in Berlin.
- In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.
- Earling in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
- Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.
- Sometimes in the night he dreamed about the dead - familiar faces and the others, half-forgotten ones, fleetingly summoned up.
- Darlings!
The 10 books are:
Claire Messud: The Emperor‘s Children. John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor. Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. Zadie Smith: White Teeth. Julian Barnes: Arthur & George. Colm Toibin: The Master. Philip Roth: The Plot against America.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
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