I left, now I'm back. Wordpress was not making me happy, nor did I feel particularly tech savvy floundering around their universe. Too much lingo, too many cute-sy gizmos, way too many steps to accomplish simple tasks. I suppose I could have tried for a private tutorial, but we at EPL are way too busy for that especially since I had sooo many questions.
So, on to my true purpose in blogging (and less griping)...a book on the New Titles table caught my eye, 15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. (031.2 Newma.S) Just imagine how many family arguments could be settled at the Thanksgiving table if you had this handy. Having given it a quick perusal, I found a section with the first lines of famous works. Do you know where these are from?
(Answers below, no peeking.)
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
"The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail."
"Marley was dead, to begin with."
"Stately, plump Buch Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
"All children except one, grow up."
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Jaws
A Christmas Carol
Ulysses (Not Homer's...Joyce's)
Peter Pan
The Great Gatsby
Hope you had fun.
Ciao. Barb
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