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"A screaming comes from across the sky!." - Gravity's RainbowWww@QuestionHome@Com
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Here's mine: "A screaming comes from across the sky!." - Gravity's RainbowWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My favorites: Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife!. Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451" : It was a pleasure to burn!. Madeline L'Engle "A wrinkle in Time": It was a dark and stormy night!. Toni Morrison "Beloved": 124 was spiteful!. Kurt Vonnegut "Slapstick": To whom it may concern: It is springtime!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range !. !. !.come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River !. !. !. Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey!. Perhaps not the greatest opening line, but certainly the one I've read most often!. And yes, in my youth I was so pretentious as to have memorized that!. I also knew the opening lines to War and Peace, Look Homeward, Angel and Atlas Shrugged!. I no longer do, and beyond the first eleven words I had to check on this one, particularly for punctuation!. What!? Am I trying to prove I'm not a complete geek!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Because I just bought the book, this one comes to mind first!. (Had to look at it, though, to get it right!.) Having come to life in a thunderstorm, touched by some strange lightning that animated rather than incinerated, Deucalion had been born on a night of violence!. ~Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two, City of NightWww@QuestionHome@Com "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; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way!."Www@QuestionHome@Com "Rukbat, in the Sagittarian Sector,was a golden G type star!. It had five planets, two asteroid belts and a stay planet that it had attracted and held in a recent mellennia" -Various Dragonriders of Pern novels -Author Anne McCaffreyWww@QuestionHome@Com "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home!." --The Outsiders by S!.E!. Hinton!. |-|ebaWww@QuestionHome@Com "Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world!." - Eragon, Christopher Paolini!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have!."Www@QuestionHome@Com "Damnit you killed the cat again! Oh, just kidding, he's only decapitated!."Www@QuestionHome@Com "You do an awfully good impression of yourself!." From: Lunar Park by Bret Easton EllisWww@QuestionHome@Com I believe it was something like, "In a hole, there lived a Hobbit!."Www@QuestionHome@Com this is childish but "once upon a time there was a ----" - combination of childhood talesWww@QuestionHome@Com The Riddle House had been abandoned for almost 50 years now!. Or something like that!. :DWww@QuestionHome@Com There was (is!?) no lake at Camp Green Lake!. (Holes by Jerry Spinelli)Www@QuestionHome@Com "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together!." -The Heart is a Lonely HunterWww@QuestionHome@Com |