Jesse Ball was a SPY, but has retired to the COUNTRY - The Person Jesse Ball
Index of First Lines

1 - In the back room of an abandoned house...

2 - I smile and drink in a pleasant world...

3 - A field hospital just after a battle...

4 - I hadn't seen Leo in years...

5 - In a room in the heights, where the trains...

6 - When I was six, I left home...

7 - On a Sunday, I call the one I love...

8 - Remember the winter when it was so cold...

9 - Ten years from now...

10 - I have been in this land one year...

11 - Uncle Agamemnon the fabled escape...

12 - The house might as well be paper...

13 - The battering of wings against glass...

14 - Friday morning...

15 - After the film, we were all in love...

16 - One morning you wake up and decide...

17 - I caught a girl picking flowers...

18 - The man in the grey house high on the corner...

19 - I read a book once...

20 - These are mathematics for the hopeful...

21 - At night it was warmer than in the day...

22 - I wish that I did not have...

23 - The janitor in the Winslow...

24 - "They're the qualities that make a good soldier"...

25 - "Now's the time for holding hands"...

26 - The prayer wheels are turning...

27 - Out for a walk on some afternoon...

29 - It was early in the campaign...

30 - A spare room, a cot. Your head feels...

31 - In the autumn...

32 - Today it has rained. It has rained...

35 - In the street the boys drift...

36 - The streets are long and winding...

37 - The poverty of your gestures...

38 - In this country, certain things are true...

39 - The little girl who blows the whistle...

40 - Recognize that your passage...

41 - There is a sound like a dog coughing...

42 - A woman with a cat's head...

43 - I have given in to this winter...

44 - Say it isn't so. Say you won't...

47 - I turn to my father and say...

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