Books Feb 21, 2005

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Take five good fiction books around you. Transcribe the first sentence of that book (not the forward or author's note). Make sure to [part of speech] any obviously identifying names or schticks (i.e. Vulcans in a Star Trek book would become [Aliens]). Post 'em here, and let people try to identify them.

1. You are reading this for the wrong reason.
2. By the time [main character] reached his house the burden of what had happened to him had already become intolerable.
3. [Character], dear in very sisterhood, Do you perceive how Heaven upon us two Means to fulfil, before we come to die, Out of all ills that grow from [Other Character] - What not, indeed?
4. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army.
5. [Character] and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.