Thursday, February 26, 2009

List of first liners

"I was late for football practice, but what could I do after Miss Gazollis, whose luscious curves drove me crazy anyway,  asked me to stay after class and hold the ladder for her while she inspected something on the ceiling?"  Randy Fallus, The Pole Bowl

Didn't make 100 Best First Lines from Novels
2/26/2009 11:32:00 AM 3 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton


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Anonymous said...

...then she took me to the library
so I could look up something.
("Nice beaver." — The Naked Gun)
—DougM

2/26/09, 11:55 AM
Anonymous said...

From the list:

9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

2/27/09, 8:11 AM
Anonymous said...

Opening sentence from a novel I wrote 15 years or so back:

An impromptu posse of sycamore leaves chased a renegade plastic Wal-Mart bag under a maple which showed the white undersides of its leaves as .45 calibre ice pellets boomped down on the umbrella over the wrought-iron picnic table and made splooshing sounds as they dove into the pool.

2/27/09, 10:07 AM

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