Answers to the Authors and Famous First Lines Puzzle

In the Aug. 17, 2009 posting Secret Thoughts – Phrase from a Book, I posted a little puzzle. The goal was to match the authors with famouls first lines. Here are the answers:

Melville      CmI (Moby Dick: Call me Ishmael)
John          ItbwtW (The Bible, Book of John) In the beginning was the Word)
Coleridge     IiaaMAhsoot (Rime of the Ancient Mariner: It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three)
Rand          WiJG (Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?)
Austin        Iiatua (Pride & Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged)
Camus         Mdt (The Stranger: Mother died today.)
Fitzgerald    Imyamvy (The Great Gatsby: In my younger and more vulnerable years)
Locke         Thhtbaeoadcg (Two treatises of government: Thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government)
Adams         Foitub (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Far out in the uncharted backwaters)

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