http://www.metafilter.com/tags/dondelillo/rss tag posts with dondelillo Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:40:55 -0800 Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:40:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21168/ <a href="http://people.cornell.edu/pages/jad22/">"I was driving a Lexus through a rustling wind."</a> Did anyone recognize the opening sentence of Don DeLillo's <b>Underworld</b>? First lines often set the tone for a whole novel but they're fun on their own too. So, after reading <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,779566,00.html">this article</a> by John Mullan, I found this interesting quiz to test my identification skills. Well! The warm-up exercises are recommended for giving you a false sense of security, btw... And here's a <a href="http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/q-firstlinesq.html">bonus quiz</a> for Faulkner fans. Just one example: "<i>The jury said "Guilty" and the Judge said "Life" but he didn't hear them</i>." They don't get much better than that, do they? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.21168 Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:40:55 -0800 dondelillo underworld faulkner johnmullan firstlines literature quizzes Carlos Quevedo