The very first sentence
of " poèmes fin 
          de siècle" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti


" Her language teacher with
           the commas for eyebrows
                    parsed it out for her
                            so that she saw that
           this was no straight sentence 
       but had a lot of dangling participles
                  and dependant clauses
not to mention subjunctives of untrue                         condition... "

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March

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The very first sentence
of " Mr Wharton " by Elizabeth Taylor

" The furnished flat in a London suburb fell vacant on a Monday and Hilda Provis, having collected the key from the agents in the High Street, walked down the hill towards Number Twenty."




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March

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Lille

The very first sentence

of " The End of Days" by Jenny Erpenbeck

" The Lord gave and the Lord took away, her grand-mother said to her at the edge of the grave."

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March

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The very first sentence

of " Just take my heart" de Mary Higgins Clark

" It was the persistent sense of impending doom, not the nor'easter, that made Natalie flee from Cape Cod back to New Jersey in the predawn hours of Monday morning."

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March

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The very first sentence
of " Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M.Pirsig

"I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning."


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February

The very first sentence

of "Solid objects" by Virginia Woolf

"The only thing that moved upon the vast semi-circle of the beach was one small black spot."

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February

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The very first sentence

of "Sleepwalking" by Amy Bloom

"I was born smart and had been lucky my whole life, so I didn't even know that what I thought was careful planning was nothing more than being in the right place at the right time, missing the avalanche that I didn't even hear."

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February

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