Greg Winsky ’71 created a quiz featuring first lines from famous works of fiction, smashed together. We’ve adapted it for PAW Online readers. Test your literary knowledge with these five examples.
A Saturday afternoon in November was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend — the weekend of the Yale game.
Two households, both alike in dignity, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
When in April, the cruelest month, sweet showers fall.
Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, there was a moocow coming down along the road, and my brother Jem got his arm broken at the elbow.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, the first thing you’ll probably want to know about me is where I was born, what my lousy childhood was like, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap.