October 26, 2004
Pick Up Lines
Terry Teachout's Girl in Chicago picks up on a thread over at Critical Mass discussing memorable openings in literature.
One of my all-time favorites, one that immediately said so much to my sensibilities when I read it despite its minimal length, was the opening sentence from C.S. Lewis' Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrub, and he almost deserved it.
Priceless.
How about you guys?
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“Living on a sandwich and a case of the finest aluminum-clad friends six dollars can buy, on the banks of Elkhorn Creek, hidden in the bushes from the fish and wildlife man, I remain true to my word: I will love you ‘til the day I die.” - Vic Barry, 1987 - from Nine Miles Over.
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