Kellycakes
Number of posts : 1136 Age : 46 Location : State of Thankfulness! Current Mood : Registration date : 2008-07-17
| Subject: Favorite First Line... March 4th 2009, 7:05 pm | |
| What do you believe is the best opening line in Literature?
To be honest, there is only one that I can currently remember off the top of my head and it is; "Call me Ishmael" and of course it is from Moby Dick.
What are some of the opening lines you remember? | |
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TerishD
Number of posts : 1441 Age : 64 Location : Ringgold, Louisiana Current Mood : Registration date : 2008-07-21
| Subject: Reply March 4th 2009, 11:39 pm | |
| It was a dark and stormy night.
If you cannot think of a better opening line, you might as well not start the story. | |
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Leaka
Number of posts : 334 Age : 32 Location : I'm one of the voices in your mind Current Mood : Registration date : 2008-09-25
| Subject: Re: Favorite First Line... March 4th 2009, 11:44 pm | |
| "True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? " The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
This was the story that inspired me to write horror. And that line really gets me. | |
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PoeMars
Number of posts : 13 Age : 38 Location : Illinois Current Mood : Registration date : 2009-06-26
| Subject: Re: Favorite First Line... June 26th 2009, 7:48 pm | |
| "FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief." The first line of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." The first line of The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka. LOVE em! | |
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