Ten first lines

[avevale_intelligencer]

1. We met when you were still a girl, in 1968... (and for a bonus point, who's it about?)

2. Don't ask me how I know, just look over your shoulder...

3. Come walk with me one last time, through ages past, of man's golden greatness...

4. When I was very little, barely knew my name... - "Garboo" by Tom Smith, got by aunty_marion.

5. She was fond of grammar, and tasting Spanish wine...

6. Thrusters burning bright, starlight guides my sordid path...

7. Like a lonely pilgrim, I wander with my heart on my sleeve...

8. Hold still now, 'cause they're moving information close to you... - "Without Hope You Cannot Start The Day" by Yes, got by pbristow.

9. I was always insecure, I never was too sure...

10. Standing at the limit of an endless ocean, stranded like a runaway lost at sea...

Apologies for inadvertent mondegreens.

Comments

[aunty_marion]

No.4 is 'Garboo' by Tom Smith.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

*sigh* several of these feel familiar, but I don't have any names to put to them.

[batyatoon]

*looks around, bewildered* How did I get here?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

The super let you in the back door?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I don't even know if these are book first lines or song first lines, but I don't recognise any of them

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

They're song first lines.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

u/8`t/x>

That is, "I have no idea" -- literally, "My mind's a blank" -- in American Sign Language, in ASCII-Stokoe notation.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

I'm hopeless at these things. A few are tickling my memory, but no bites yet.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

#8 - Without Hope, You Cannot Start The Day.
(ABWH)

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Splendid, though I think it was actually ABWHRSWTFBBQ--I mean the reunited Yesses, on "Union."

Any more? I can reveal that among the candidates are one member of the above group, one band that another member thereof once worked with, and a member of a group often mentioned in the same breath as. Does that help?

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. My prog rock qualifications are a bit too specialised, I'm afraid. =:o}

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Come to me and be broadened, my son. See answers post just put up.