First Sentences of Some of My Least Favorite Books

1. It has occurred to the writer to call this unim­portant history The Green Hat because a green hat was the first thing about her that he saw: as also it was, in a way, the last thing about her that he saw.

2. When I had established myself in my new lodgings in Camden Town, I found I had ten pounds in my pocket, and again there was no outlook.

3. Six North Africans were playing boules beneath Flaubert's statue.

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