The very first sentences
of " Definitive I.Q Test for Cats and IQ Test for Cat Owners" by Melissa Miller

" Throughout the five thousand years that the cat has lived in a domestical setting, man has speculated upon the level of intelligence it seems to possess. Given the cat's ability to reason and to think for itself, as well as its air of utter superiority and rather mysterious nature, it is perhaps easy to understand how it has captured the imagination of so many generations."


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October

People from here and there

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Yvelines

The very first sentence
of " The sisters" by Pauline Smith

"Marta was the eldest of my father's children, and she was sixteen years old when our mother died and our father lost his last of his water-cases to old Jan Redlinghuis of Bitterwater."



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October

The very first sentences
of " 102 English Things To Do" by Alex Quick


"English activities
Go to a jumble sale
The English jumble sale is typically held in a church hall on a Saturday morning. It is organized by elderly female communicants with small moustaches."


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October

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Northamptonshire

The very first sentence
of "The happy autumn fields" by Elizabeth Bowen

"The family walking party, though it comprised so many, did not deploy or straggle over the stubble but kept in a procession of threes or twos."


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October

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The very first sentence
of " The pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman


"The Hour of the Children and the Mad

I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Café Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto."

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October

People from here and there

Gare du Nord, Paris