26 March 2016

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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19 March 2016

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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12 March 2016

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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5 March 2016

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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