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I was reading Locus, the SF magazine, last night and I came across this link to what the American Book Review considers are the 100 Best First Lines with

#8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

#15. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

#47. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. —C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

#72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)

#82. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. —Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)

#83. "When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." —Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (1983)

See if your favorite author made the list.


ETA: It appears that my lj layout changed all of a sudden without any doing on my part. I wonder if it's permanent or just a glitch in the system *ponders the mystery that is lj*
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