Re: More favourite opening lines

From	ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: More favourite opening lines
Date	2018-06-27 05:16 +0000
Organization	loft
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In article <pgv2nt$nh$3@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>In article <1c035105-9ba7-4fc8-95a8-aa9d60928054@googlegroups.com>,
>Moriarty  <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
> > This topic has been done periodically over the years. I bring it up
> > again because last week I read this opening paragraph(*):
> >
> > "It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army
> > of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy Convent, Lano
> > Tacsis brought two hundred men."
> >
> > What a hook! Another other recent examples that people would care to 
>share?
> >
> > (*) Mark Lawrence "Red Sister". Highly recommended.
>
>Today.The opening line of Chapter 1 (*) (after the Prologue), read:
>
>No child truly believes they will be hanged. Even on the gallows 
>platform with the rope scratching at their wrists.......

===
Safety devices that do not protect.

===
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that
as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were
scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with
a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm
and multiply in a drop of water.

===
ON and on Coeurl prowled! 

===
I am a very old man; how old I do not know. 

===
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. 

===
Two thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding;
or, rather, were passing through each other.

===
"...THE OCCUPANTS of each floor of the hotel must as usual
during the games form their own protective groups..."

===
"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank
Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the
Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms
lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars -
Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired
women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry,
Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its
shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and
gold.

===
Originally the robot was intended to be a can opener.

-- 
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What's not in Columbia anymore..

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More favourite opening lines Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-25 17:44 -0700
  Re: More favourite opening lines goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-06-26 04:30 +0000
    Re: More favourite opening lines Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-06-26 08:58 -0700
    Re: More favourite opening lines Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2018-06-27 16:10 +1200
      Re: More favourite opening lines ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-27 05:16 +0000
        Re: More favourite opening lines peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-06-27 16:31 -0700
          Re: More favourite opening lines Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-06-28 03:48 +0300
          Re: More favourite opening lines "artyw2@yahoo.com" <artyw2@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-28 09:39 -0700
            Re: More favourite opening lines djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-28 17:10 +0000
        Re: More favourite opening lines Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-27 17:36 -0700
        Re: More favourite opening lines David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-06-27 19:45 -0500
          Re: More favourite opening lines ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-28 03:44 +0000
          Re: More favourite opening lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-01 18:59 -0700
        Re: More favourite opening lines tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-06-28 05:52 -0700
          Re: More favourite opening lines peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-06-28 10:10 -0700
            Re: More favourite opening lines tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-02 05:51 -0700
              Re: More favourite opening lines Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-02 09:36 -0700
          Re: More favourite opening lines David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-06-28 16:32 -0500
            Re: More favourite opening lines goldfarb@kithrup.com (David Goldfarb) - 2018-06-29 05:16 +0000
              Re: More favourite opening lines Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> - 2018-06-29 11:17 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-29 14:16 -0700
                Re: More favourite opening lines Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> - 2018-06-30 12:10 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-30 05:56 -0700
                Re: More favourite opening lines David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-12 11:05 -0500
                Re: More favourite opening lines djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-12 19:23 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines Panthera Tigris Altaica <northerntiger@outlook.com> - 2018-07-12 12:57 -0700
                Re: More favourite opening lines goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-07-13 05:18 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-14 05:28 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-07-16 22:29 +0000
                Re: More favourite opening lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-16 20:49 -0700
                Re: More favourite opening lines djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-17 04:27 +0000
            Re: More favourite opening lines David Mitchell <david.robot.mitchell@gmail.com> - 2018-06-30 10:00 +0100
            Re: More favourite opening lines "Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason@comcast.net> - 2018-07-01 14:31 -0500
              Re: More favourite opening lines peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-07-01 16:04 -0700
                Re: More favourite opening lines "Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason@comcast.net> - 2018-07-01 18:49 -0500
              Re: More favourite opening lines D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-07-01 23:12 +0000
            Re: More favourite opening lines tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-02 05:52 -0700
          Re: More favourite opening lines goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-06-29 05:10 +0000
            Re: More favourite opening lines tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-02 05:55 -0700
          Re: More favourite opening lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-01 19:01 -0700
            Re: More favourite opening lines tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-02 05:56 -0700
        Re: More favourite opening lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-02 05:12 -0700
      Re: More favourite opening lines Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-27 16:40 -0700
        Re: More favourite opening lines Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2018-06-28 15:38 +1200
  Re: More favourite opening lines "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@pants.btinternet.com> - 2018-06-26 08:36 +0100
    Re: More favourite opening lines Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 05:39 -0700
  Re: More favourite opening lines Harold Hill <kyle.pellarkosbar@gmail.com> - 2018-06-29 06:23 -0700
    Re: More favourite opening lines Steve Dodds <sdodds@nova-optical.com> - 2018-07-02 07:19 -0600
  Re: More favourite opening lines D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-06-30 16:46 +0000
  Re: More favourite opening lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-01 19:12 -0700
  Re: More favourite opening lines Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-12 23:06 -0500

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