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    • Learn well your grammer,
    And never stammer,
    Write well and neatly,
    And sing most sweetly,
    Drink tea, not coffee,
    Never eat toffee,
    Eat bread with butter,
    Once more, don't stutter. . .
    -Lewis Carroll

    // posted by Jonah

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    I was wondering how much a first sentence usually has to do with a book, and so I copied down the first sentences of some books. Can you match them with their opening sentences? Good luck. Answers will be posted if anybody shows interest.
    a.Most of the questions I recieve about the Sun at the Astronomy Cafe have to do with its basic properties of mass, age, temperature, brightness, and future evolution.
    b.Miss Carmody was annoyed.
    c.I was born in 1933 in Bucharest, Romania, and during the war I went to Palestine.
    d.William went to the dentist.
    e.The day started to go a little crazy when Keith Duffy and his young daughter brought that poor doe to the Inn-Patient, as I call my small animal hospital in Bear Bluff, Colorado, about fifty minutes northwest of Boulder along the "Peak-to-Peak" highway.
    f. If, standing alone of the back doorstep Tom allowed himself to weep tears, they were tears of anger.
    g.When I was thirty-two years old, after a lifetime of above average sex I found myself having to pay for it.
    h. Com.Where do you come from, Socrates?
    i.He was alone.
    j. "My leg's hot," I announced as our car pulled out of the driveway.
    k. "Hike", said Janice.
    l. I looked down from the witness stand at five Mafia defendants, five rows of press, and a standing-room-only courtroom filled with over 300 people.
    m.It was exactly seven point two miles from Sarah Baldwin's North End apartment to the Medical Center of Boston.
    n."But, Inge, they're predicting ideal snow conditions," said my mother.
    o.Q.150. Why did God make you?
    p.My father was a God in my eyes when I was growing up.
    q.Outside my window a mixture of rain and snow was settling into slush on Berkely street.
    r.As soon as the snow mels, I will go to Rass and fetch my mother.
    s.Two things are happening soon: Daddy's getting married and Claude's going into the Army.
    t.Mr Jones, of Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.
    1.Ollie the Backward Forward-Clem Philbrook
    2.The Last Catholic In America-John R Powers
    3.Donnie Brasco-Joseph D. Pistone
    4.Protagoras-Plato
    5.Fat Men From Space-Daniel Pinkwater
    6.Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud-Joe Pepitone
    7.Soup for President-Robert Newton Peck
    8.Tom's Midnight Garden-Philippa Pearce
    9.The Car-Gary Paulsen
    10.When The Wind Blows-James Patterson
    11.Jacob Have I Loved-Katherine Patterson
    12.Hush Money-Robert Parker
    13.The Kid In The Red Jacket-Barbara Park
    14.David Meyer is a Mother-Gail Parent
    15.Natural Causes-Michael Palmer
    16.Last One Home-Mary Pope Osbourne
    17.Animal Farm-George Orwell
    18.The Devil In Vienna-Doris Orgel
    19.Lydia, Queen of Palestine-Uri Orlev
    20.The Astronomy Cafe-Sten Odenwald
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