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|---|---|
| From | goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) |
| Subject | Re: More favourite opening lines |
| Message-ID | <pAwxuL.DAC@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2018-06-26 04:30 +0000 |
| References | <1c035105-9ba7-4fc8-95a8-aa9d60928054@googlegroups.com> |
| Organization | Mt. Foraker Appreciation Society |
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.
"There are a number of smells one expects to encounter in a dungeon.
Fresh rosemary generally isn't one of them." -- Ursula Vernon, writing
as "T. Kingfisher", _Clockwork Boys_.
"I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module,
but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment
channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000
hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably,
I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays,
and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure."
-- Martha Wells, "All Systems Red".
"'There were unexpected difficulties,' said the dark gray blur."
-- Ann Leckie, _Provenance.
"Log entry: Sol 6. I'm pretty much fucked. That's my considered opinion."
-- Andy Weir, _The Martian_.
--
David Goldfarb |"The only thing better than messing with somebody's
goldfarbdj@gmail.com | sense of reality is messing with a whole LOTTA
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu | people's sense of reality...."
| -- J. Michael Straczynski
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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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