%title Mwah!
%date 2005-04-25 03:58:03
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1.  Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
2.  Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3.  Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4.  Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.

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1.  We lived in the village of Nazareth, an insignificant hillside town in Galilee, nowhere mentioned in the Scriptures - you probably haven't heard of it even if you come from northern Israel yourself.

2.  All the palmate-leaved ones, the / pinnate, and the pinnatifid, the entire - / Rosy Hawaiian Babies, wize Mazatec sages, / and the old Indian rope trick.

3.  Pharmacodynamics is the study of the effects and actions of drugs on living organisms.  

<s>4. Once upon a time, there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.</s>
<s>5a. The rabbit had been run over minutes before.</s>
<s>5b. Deep within a dream, Lirael felt someone stroking her forehead. </s>
<s>5c. There was another fog, far away from the smog of Corvere.  </s>

6a. The Consul awoke with a peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring.  
6b. On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party.  
6c. You are reading this for the wrong reason.  
6d. "The Pope is dead, long live the Pope!"  

7. Context is everything. 

8. The Eighth World Futurological Congress was held in Costa Rica.

9. At 19.00 hours ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay. 

10. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcatagory.

11. While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, "authenticity" still remains the word most likely to stir a debate.

<s>12. The Pentabarf was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of the Caterpillar.</s>

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