31 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Mirrors of Charles Street" by William Faulkner


"The man reflected in the mirrors of Charles Street is a crippled beggar :as we learn he lost his leg in a railroad accident, and now has to beg for money"

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May


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30 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

"First the colours. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least I try."


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 May


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Pondichéry. Tamil Nadu, Inde

29 May 2015

The very first sentence
of " A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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May


28 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Fat" from Short Stories by Raymond Carver



"I am sitting over coffee and cigarettes at my friend Rita's and I am telling her about it."



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May



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Casablanca, Morocco

27 May 2015

The very first sentence
of " The secret scripture" by Sebastian Barry


"The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say."



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May



26 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Cats in Copenhagen" by James Joyce


"Alas ! I cannot send you a Copenhagen cat because there are no cats in Copenhagen."


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May


25 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Lord of the flies" by William Golding


"The sound of the shell. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon."



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May 


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Preparing to go fishing. Seine, France

24 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Birds of America" by Mary Mc Carthy

"Winter visitors. In the Wild Life Sanctuary, the Great Horned Owl had died."

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May


23 May 2015

The very first sentence


of "Eat, pray, love" by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Italy or 'Say it like you Eat it'.
 I wish Giovanni would kiss me."


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May


22 May 2015

The very first sentence

of "The diamond as big as the Ritz" by F.Scott Fitzgerald

"The cut-glass bowl. There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age."



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Inhotim. Minas Gerais, Brasil

21 May 2015

The very first sentence

of "The Tiger Ladies. A memoir of Kashmir" by Sudha Koul


"Om! Shri Ganeshaye Namah !" 

With that invocation made right at the beginning we make sure everything shall turn out well."



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May



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Woman drawing her daily kolam. Tamil Nadu, India

20 May 2015

The very first sentence


of "Christmas holidays" by W.Somerset Maugham


"With a journey before him, Charley Mason's mother was anxious that he should make a good breakfast, but he was too excited to eat"


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May



19 May 2015

The very first sentence


of "Arabian Nights" 

"A long time ago there was a mighty king of the Banu Sasan in the lands of India and China, and when he died, he left only two sons, one in the prime of manhood and the other still a youth, both brave."


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May



18 May 2015

The very first sentence

of "How to become a brit" by George Mikes



"How to become an alien. A warning to beginners.
In England* everything is the other way round."
*"When people say England they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles-but never England."



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London, England

17 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Malgudi Days" by R.K. Narayan

"An astrologer's day. Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his profesional equipment, which consisted in a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writings."


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May



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Minas Gerais, Brazil

16 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "The Ghost Road" by Pat Barker

"In deck chairs all along the front the bald knees of Bradford business men nuzzled the sun."


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May


15 May 2015

The very first sentence

of "Youth" by Joseph Conrad


"This could have occured nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak-the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning"



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May


14 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "The French" by Theodore Zeldin



"How to avoid seeing the sights. The "average Frenchman" is often known today as Monsieur Dupont or Monsieur Durand"

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13 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Spook" by Mary Roach


I don't recall my mood the morning I was born, but I imagine I felt a bit out of sorts"



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Petits curieux. Le Vésinet, France



12 May 2015

The very first sentence
of "Why I live at the P.O" by Eudora Welty

"I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella-Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again."


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MAY