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The_Fractal_King
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His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
Asimov, Foundation
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Bemelmans, Madeline
Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of sails, and was at rest.
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (personally I think having the first lines in Apocalypse Now be "The End" was brilliant)
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
Goldman, The Princess Bride
Asimov, Foundation
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Bemelmans, Madeline
Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of sails, and was at rest.
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (personally I think having the first lines in Apocalypse Now be "The End" was brilliant)
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
Goldman, The Princess Bride
Carnevil9
King of Jesters.
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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.
- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
I always get the shakes before a drop.
- Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god.
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (okay, more than a line. but it flows)
- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
I always get the shakes before a drop.
- Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god.
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (okay, more than a line. but it flows)
rengadeirishman
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Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations,
As of thunder in the mountains?
-Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha"
This is the forest primeval.
-longfellow, "Evangeline"
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations,
As of thunder in the mountains?
-Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha"
This is the forest primeval.
-longfellow, "Evangeline"
