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There's a little book meme that's starting to spread, in which bloggers post 13 opening lines and visitors have to try to identify them.
If you know any of these, come on over and identify them. I mean, if novel WRITERS can't get them... And feel free to set one up on your blog. Or here. Or wherever.1. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
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3. It came by mail, the old-fashioned way, since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices.
4. No knowledge has come down of Joseph Knecht's origins.
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6. The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning.
7. The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
8. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
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10. Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert.
11. Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements simply, of land and sky - Saskatchewan prairie.
12. In the tombs of Kursi sits a man with his back to the sea.
13. The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive,' then sat pen in hand with no more to record.