Andare, Partire, Tornare ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- addendum - book opening lines Ok, can't resist this - as swiped from mechaieh. Favorite First Lines of novels (prone to change at my whim and whatever I happen to be reading at the moment): "The year Janet started at Blacklock College, the Office of Residential Life had spent the summer removing from all the dormitories the old wooden bookcases that, once filled with books, fell over unless wedged." --Pamela Dean, _Tam Lin_ "Part of the problem, Nita thought to herself as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut." --Diane Duane, _So You Want To Be A Wizard?_ "I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world." --Barry Hughart, _Bridge of Birds_ "On the most beautiful day any April could be asked to come up with, I was kneeling in eight inches of oily water in the cramped bilge of Meyer's squatty little cabin cruiser, the John Maynard Keynes, taking his automatic bilge pump apart for the third time in an hour." --John D. MacDonald, _A Tan and Sandy Silence_ "'Oh, damn,' said Lord Peter." --Dorothy L. Sayers, _Whose Body?_ "Traveller died of lockjaw two years after Robert E. Lee died." --Connie Willis, _Lincoln's Dreams_ "'Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him." --Susan Cooper, _The Dark is Rising_ "She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it." --Robin McKinley, _The Hero and the Crown_ "'There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden.'" --Madeline L'Engle, _A Wind in the Door_ 8:13 p.m. - 2003-01-30 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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