Assignment for Tuesday 1/20/08

Five original titles of essays that you would like to write some day.

1. Growing Up With Nell
2. The Sisters
3. The Music in My Life
4. Helen
5. March 22, 1996

Five best First lines:

1. Meatless Days-I had strongly hoped that they would say sweetbreads instead of testicles, but I was wrong.
2.On Some Verses of Virgil- To the extent that useful thoughts are fuller and more solid, they are also more absorbing and more burdensome.
3. The Lantern-Bearers- These boys congregated every autumn about a certain easterly fisher village, where they tasted in high degree the glory of existence.
4. My Face- Merely as an observer of natural phenomena, I am fascinated by my own personal appearance.
5. Once a Tramp, Always...-There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.