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This is for posting interesting or meaningful or just awesome first lines to books and poems and that sort of thing. Also, because there's not much interest in opening lines, and I really like this thread, I'm extending it to any lines or passages as well.
'A screaming comes across the sky.'
- Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
'It was a pleasure to burn.'
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'
- The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.'
- The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
'April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.'
- The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
Doe anyone else have anything to contribute?
'A screaming comes across the sky.'
- Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
'It was a pleasure to burn.'
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'
- The Gunslinger (Stephen King)
'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.'
- The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
'April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.'
- The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
Doe anyone else have anything to contribute?
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