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01/28/2015 01:45:25 PM · #1 |
title your entry with the opening line from any work of fiction.
expert editing.
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01/28/2015 01:51:48 PM · #2 |
| Nice idea, though it could also he a shoehorn topic. |
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01/28/2015 01:55:21 PM · #3 |
| My high school English teacher told me that his professor had written his entire PhD thesis on the opening line from Moby Dick ... which I suppose helped inspire this ... |
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01/28/2015 02:07:38 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Nice idea, though it could also he a shoehorn topic. |
that's why i picked expert editing. |
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01/28/2015 02:27:09 PM · #5 |
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01/28/2015 02:33:41 PM · #6 |
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01/28/2015 05:34:45 PM · #7 |
| Super idea! I already have my opening lines :) |
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01/28/2015 05:51:54 PM · #8 |
"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 direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
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01/28/2015 07:29:54 PM · #9 |
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01/28/2015 08:17:18 PM · #10 |
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. â€Â¦"
Thoreau's Walden's Pond would cover my regional subjects. :-) |
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01/28/2015 08:53:10 PM · #11 |
Oh! Saw the title and thought you meant opening line of a joke. Hahn could be even happier if An elk walks into a bar....
Hmm. Maybe we should have a punchline challenge. |
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01/28/2015 09:29:34 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
Oh! Saw the title and thought you meant opening line of a joke. Hahn could be even happier if An elk walks into a bar....
Hmm. Maybe we should have a punchline challenge. |
So, an elk walks into a bar.
Message edited by author 2015-01-28 21:31:43. |
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01/28/2015 09:31:17 PM · #13 |
I have just realized I spent a bunch of time researching titles and shots for this 'yet to be announced' challenge and further realize I hope it does not get chosen - I have no available models. Can I get two weeks notice before posting? I got a great idea... But in reality, all the best first lines would not fit as titles - too long and abbreviations may get lost in translation. How about 'best first lines' but the title is the title of the novel?
Message edited by author 2015-01-28 21:45:51. |
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01/28/2015 10:12:46 PM · #14 |
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
Message edited by author 2015-01-28 22:13:47. |
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01/28/2015 10:21:37 PM · #15 |
| So, do you come here often? |
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01/29/2015 12:18:29 AM · #16 |
| "My theory, which belongs to me, is mine." |
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01/29/2015 03:34:00 AM · #17 |
The sun shone..............
yes |
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01/29/2015 03:47:19 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Tiny:
The sun shone..............
yes |
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.â€
Samuel Beckett - Murphy
That's one of my favourite opening lines. Or...
'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.'
J.G Ballard - High Rise
is another. Plenty to choose from. Good suggestion. |
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01/29/2015 04:30:50 AM · #19 |
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill ... seeks to place a duty on specified authorities ... to ‘have due regard, in the exercise of its functions, to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.
That's the astounding opening line of Prevention of Duty Guidance by the British government.
It's a fantastic (literally) new title that easily out-Orwells Orwell. You must have this on your bookshelf. Actually, if you're a school teacher, university staffer, local government functionary of any kind, a prison official, a court official, a health service worker, a scout master, and just about anyone else holding even the most innocuous level of public office, you really MUST have it on your bookshelf. It will be compulsory.
It's not a long read. But it does suspend freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of worship, and quite a few other freedoms and liberties. So it's admirably economical.
It targets not people who are terrorists, but people who may be 'drawn into terrorism'. Not people who have committed any terrorist act, but people who may. And it exhorts every pissant public official to actively identify such people, and to maintain records of compliance in doing so. It's a proven system; the East Germans did it, and pretty soon every citizen was an informer. Or else.
Message edited by author 2015-01-29 04:34:08. |
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01/29/2015 06:23:50 AM · #20 |
what?
Message edited by author 2015-01-31 12:27:18. |
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01/29/2015 08:09:32 PM · #21 |
So sorry -- I couldn't resistâ€Â¦
It was a dark and stormy night... |
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01/29/2015 09:07:45 PM · #22 |
| whoopsie generale beat you to that one |
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01/29/2015 09:11:48 PM · #23 |
Aw drat!!
Ok:
In the great green room, there was a telephone |
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01/29/2015 09:14:09 PM · #24 |
| "The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING!' and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP!' so he was sent to bed without eating anything." |
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01/29/2015 09:16:21 PM · #25 |
| "Marley was dead, to begin with." |
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