First Sentences of Some of My Favorite Books
1. Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and
doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as
she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in
Welbeck Street.
2. All of this universe known to me in the year 1864 was bounded by the wooded hills of a little Wisconsin coulee, and its center was the cottage in which my mother was living alone -- my father was in war.
3. Miss Jocelyn rings the bell a second time, and pulls down the handle with a vigour that shows that this time she will have it answered, or, like the 30,000 Cornish men, "know the reason why."
4. The thin winter day had died early, and at four o'clock it was dark night in the long room in which Mr Innés gave his concerts of early music.
5. In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it.
6. A book of the kind I am about to complete -- much of it has been written in fragments for years past -- can only take form in the late span of one's life, when detachment and a sense of humor temper an undue preoccupation with oneself, and give a point of view obscured by illusions and passions which belonged to an earlier time.
doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as
she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in
Welbeck Street.
2. All of this universe known to me in the year 1864 was bounded by the wooded hills of a little Wisconsin coulee, and its center was the cottage in which my mother was living alone -- my father was in war.
3. Miss Jocelyn rings the bell a second time, and pulls down the handle with a vigour that shows that this time she will have it answered, or, like the 30,000 Cornish men, "know the reason why."
4. The thin winter day had died early, and at four o'clock it was dark night in the long room in which Mr Innés gave his concerts of early music.
5. In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it.
6. A book of the kind I am about to complete -- much of it has been written in fragments for years past -- can only take form in the late span of one's life, when detachment and a sense of humor temper an undue preoccupation with oneself, and give a point of view obscured by illusions and passions which belonged to an earlier time.
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