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popcorn
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Opening Lines
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Nov 16 02:13 UTC 1992 |
This item is devoted to interesting opening lines. For example, John Varley's
newest novel, _Steel Beech_, begins with a sentence that goes something like
"Within 5 years the penis will be obsolete."
Ever notice the opening line to Madeline L'Engle's _A Wrinkle In Time_?
"It was a dark and stormy night."
What opening lines stick in *your* mind?
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robh
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response 1 of 36:
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Nov 16 02:37 UTC 1992 |
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned
to a dead channel." Neuromancer, William Gibson
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mcnally
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response 2 of 36:
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Nov 16 17:29 UTC 1992 |
Well, my two favorites have already been used ("A Wrinkle in Time"
and "Neuromancer")
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md
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response 3 of 36:
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Nov 25 21:20 UTC 1992 |
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild."
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seldon
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response 4 of 36:
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Nov 27 17:39 UTC 1992 |
"It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me."
"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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matthew
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response 5 of 36:
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Nov 28 00:55 UTC 1992 |
Is that one quote Joe or 2 seperate quotes?
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mcnally
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response 6 of 36:
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Dec 2 15:42 UTC 1992 |
re #3: Dunwich Horror?
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cwb
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response 7 of 36:
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Dec 17 20:23 UTC 1992 |
re: 5, It's two quotes. The second is the Beginning of
Zelazny's "The Trumps of Doom"
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popcorn
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response 8 of 36:
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Jan 3 17:09 UTC 1993 |
Hm... the second quote in #5 sounds very familiar to me, maybe John Varley,
but i've never read Zelazny's "The Trumps of Doom". Unless it's an Amber
book from early in the series, in which case i've probably already forgotten
the whole plot....
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cwb
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response 9 of 36:
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Jan 5 03:50 UTC 1993 |
The Trumps of Doom is the first book in the second series that
follows and focuses on Merlin.
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seldon
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response 10 of 36:
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Feb 1 07:30 UTC 1993 |
Yep.
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jason242
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response 11 of 36:
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Apr 7 18:52 UTC 1994 |
All hail Bill Gibson
All hail Bill Gibson
All hail Bill Gibson
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young
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response 12 of 36:
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Jun 8 23:40 UTC 1994 |
Aujourdhui, maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas.
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kami
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response 13 of 36:
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Jun 9 01:03 UTC 1994 |
And tomorrow she'll be alive again? Where'd you get this line, anyway?
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fuz
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response 14 of 36:
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Jun 9 01:51 UTC 1994 |
Once upon a time there was a martian named valentine Michael Smith.
The first human expidition to mars was selected on the theory that the greatest
danger to man was man himself. At that time, eight terran years after the
founding on the first human coliny on Luna, an interplanetary trip made by
humans had to be made in free-fall orbits-- from terra to mars, two
hundred-fifty-eight Terran days, the same for return, plus four hundred
fifty-five days waiting at mars while the planets crawled back into the
positions for the return orbit. Only by refueling at a space station could evoy
make the trip. Once at mars she might return-- if she did not crash, if water
could be found to fill her raction tanks, if a thousnd things did not go wrong.
ound in each combination. and thus the scene was set for RAH's Stranger in A
Strange Land
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aruba
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response 15 of 36:
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Jun 9 03:46 UTC 1994 |
Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
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fuz
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response 16 of 36:
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Jun 9 19:56 UTC 1994 |
some text from my favorite opener were lost, but the first sentence is the
important one.
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curby
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response 17 of 36:
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Jun 14 02:42 UTC 1994 |
I just moved, so I had a chance to go thru the twenty odd boxes of books
that I have laying around. When I got to the new apartment, I pulled a
couple of my favorite books that I want to reread. These are three that I
think have great openings.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
-Stephen King, _THE DARK TOWER: The Gunslinger_
"Irene hadn't always been dead."
-George Alec Effinger. _Heroics_
"Chiriga's night club has right in the middle of the Budayeen, eight
blocks from the eastern gate, eight blocks from the cemetery."
-George Alec Effinger, _When gravity Fails_
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young
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response 18 of 36:
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Jun 23 22:12 UTC 1994 |
My quote was from _L'Etranger_ by Albert Camus
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val
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response 19 of 36:
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Jan 18 01:18 UTC 1995 |
I love opening quotes. Here are two i found on the spur of the moment:
"In its last days, the Republic must have strangled itself to
death on paper" from Eldrie the Healer by Claudia J. Edwards
sorry just one. i just liked it.
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kami
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response 20 of 36:
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Feb 4 07:18 UTC 1995 |
Gaaaaaar! I think I'm living with the strangler of the Republic!
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val
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response 21 of 36:
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Feb 6 01:28 UTC 1995 |
problems kami? :)
is the paperwork getting to you?
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kami
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response 22 of 36:
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Feb 7 04:20 UTC 1995 |
no, not muhc....I just ended up going to Brighton and then nearly to Detroit
to pick up a copier in Novi, because my bloody directions weren't clear
enough, and all I could think of was the work waiting at home...
Sigh!
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matthew
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response 23 of 36:
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Feb 15 22:59 UTC 1995 |
"Marley was dead, to begin with."
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gregc
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response 24 of 36:
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Feb 15 23:15 UTC 1995 |
Sounds like Dicken's _A Christmas Carol_.
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