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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links) -
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links) -
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
The modernist novel turns 100 years today!
You can find different editions & additional literature on Woolf in our collection (see reply for links) -
"A sparse snow was falling."
#FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*
(Starting running thread for any notes here)
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"That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."
-- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk
https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)
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"This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."
- Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*
(Started this morning, will keep running notes here)
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When #writing a paper, the #FirstSentence is very important since that is where you need to catch the reader and make them think: "Ok, this might be interesting/relevant to me."
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"Es gibt dunkle Geheimnisse, und es gibt glückliche Geheimnisse." #ErsteWorte #FirstSentence #arnogeiger
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"Es gibt dunkle Geheimnisse, und es gibt glückliche Geheimnisse." #ErsteWorte #FirstSentence #arnogeiger
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"Es gibt dunkle Geheimnisse, und es gibt glückliche Geheimnisse." #ErsteWorte #FirstSentence #arnogeiger
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"Es gibt dunkle Geheimnisse, und es gibt glückliche Geheimnisse." #ErsteWorte #FirstSentence #arnogeiger
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"Es gibt dunkle Geheimnisse, und es gibt glückliche Geheimnisse." #ErsteWorte #FirstSentence #arnogeiger
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"I kick now in the darkness and see a coming light, molten, veined through the membranes and fluid of the sac, which contains me."
Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard
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"This new world weighs a yatto-gram."
-The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
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This was fun the last time so...
First sentence of the book you're reading.
"There is no water in the City of Lies."
The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
#books #bookstodon #currentlyreading #firstsentence #diversebooks #africandiasporalit
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"Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed" #firstsentence #cromeyellow #huxley
