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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:21 PM Original message |
Literature 101 Fun - Best First Line: |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. My dear pinto... |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. a classic CA Peggy, |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
36. It was a stark and dormy night |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, |
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dubeskin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I agree. Best first line(s) ever. n/t |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Agree. |
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dubeskin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I guess we might as well classify it as one of the greatest books ever |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 09:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
41. It really is the best IMO, it says it all. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
48. Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. In memory of her who relinquished |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
49. Took the words right out of my mouth. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
4. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. that's a great one. |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Pedantic nitpick time! |
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JTG of the PRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed." |
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JTG of the PRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. "Midway on our life's journey, I found myself in dark woods, the right road lost." |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. "We were somewhere in the desert around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold". |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 12:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That even worked in the movie take. It's a great line. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
46. that was going to be mine as well |
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Z_I_Peevey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
52. Absolutely! |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
58. YES. |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. "A screaming comes across the sky... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-16-08 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh, gah — it was Saroyan |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
14. "Lulu slept naked because she liked to ... |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
17. The penis will be obsolete in 5 years |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
18. "It began as a mistake." |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
19. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
20. Happy families are all alike; |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
21. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, |
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insanity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:12 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. good choice |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. "Scarlett O'Hara was not pretty, but men seldom realised this." |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
23. riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:23 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Finnegan's Wake. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:10 AM Response to Original message |
24. "MY NAME is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter." |
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insanity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:14 AM Response to Original message |
26. In my younger and more vulnerable years |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:19 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Gatsby, right? |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:28 AM Response to Original message |
29. Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
31. It was the day my grandmother exploded. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
32. It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks had just struck 13 |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:50 AM Response to Reply #32 |
39. One of the all time best |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 04:47 PM Response to Reply #32 |
50. Damn straight. |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
33. "See the child" |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
34. I am a sick man. . . . I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #34 |
65. Notes from Democratic Underground |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
35. All happy families are happy in the same way, but each miserable family |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #35 |
42. "Gregor Samsa woke up |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
37. This one |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
38. One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
40. "It was a dark and stormy night" |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
43. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
44. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
45. You don't know about me without you have read a book |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
47. I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up |
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Arkham House (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
51. "Now is the winter of our discontent..." |
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Z_I_Peevey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
53. If you really want to hear about it, |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
54. It is a truth universally acknowledged |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 07:19 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Ahhhh Austen |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 08:00 AM Response to Reply #54 |
74. You took mine! :) |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
55. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." |
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GOPNotForMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 01:02 AM Response to Reply #55 |
69. You took mine! |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
56. The Red Death had long devastated the country. |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
59. No one would have believed that during the last years... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
60. . |
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puerco-bellies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
61. Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. It's one of my favorite books... |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
62. 'Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday. I can't be sure.' |
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insanity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 02:37 AM Response to Reply #62 |
71. ahhh Camus |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
64. A long line composed of a few sentences |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
66. Here's a good contender for opening paragraph: |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 12:41 AM Response to Reply #66 |
68. Yeah, I thought about posting that one, but decided it was a bit too long. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-17-08 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
67. An oblong puddle... |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
70. "They threw me off the hay truck about noon" |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
72. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
73. "Mamam died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. " |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
75. The temperature hit ninety degrees the day she arrived..... |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-18-08 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
76. And something in contrast to Miss Austen |
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Doubting Thomas (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-21-08 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
77. "Dadburn the Kid" |
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