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What makes a great opening line?
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#32record skips "You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation"
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#33See also https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”
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#34"I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."
My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair.
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#35“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
States of Matter (1975) by David L. Goodstein, for anyone wondering.
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#36"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."
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#37Surprised to not find "A tale of 2 cities". It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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#38“Call me Ishmael.”
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#39"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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#40“There was a wall.”