/lit/ - Literature

>>21008982
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

>>21008987
the german bible begins differently but still based

>>21008982
> in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

>>21009000
holy trips

>>21008982
Why do i see a gaping asshole when i blurr my eyes?

>>21009027
too much 4chan

Midway upon the journey of our life. I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

>>21009027
it's just a flower dude

>See the child.
has to be a top contender

>>21009027
meds. now.

>>21008982
>call me ishmael fr

>>21009027
Maybe its cause you are sleepy. Have a nice espresso to wake you up so you can see more clearly.

>>21008982
In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…

>>21009027
it's an AI made image starting with goatse

>>21008982
It's three sentences, but I like the directness with which DH Lawrence starts The Ladybird:
>How many swords had Lady Beveridge in her pierced heart! Yet there always seemed room for another. Since she had determined that her heart of pity and kindness should never die.

Murphy is a more obvious classic:
>The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

>>21008982
>which book has the best first sentence?
Thank you for purchasing the George Foreman Grill, please find the table of contents for this, your operations manual, below this sentence.

>>21008987
that was the most boringest thing you could have possibly said you unoriginal virtue signalling stereotype-seeking empty husk

on page two you will find a picture of George Foreman. please turn over this page.

>>21009000
AND YOU'RE EVEN WORSTer

>>21009301
> nooooo i need novelty

>>21009027

>>21008987
No

I always liked Pride and Prejudice’s :)

>>21009789
Why are you posting this image

>>21008987
fpbp

>>21008982
We have this thread every week, so here are the three answers:
1. >>21008987
2. Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
3. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

La Comedia
Pride and Prejudice
Ulysses
I've always been partial to Ulysses I think

>>21008982
I find it hard to find a books first sentence to be good. It feels wrong to judge a book on its opening sentence. That being said, I prefer it when the book goes into something about the characters thoughts or previous actions. Like lolita for example, or the first chapter of the red and the black. Both are just a look into what kind of person the character is. But I'm just some random person so I'm not sure my opinion has any merit.

>>21009046
bad translation

Ça a débuté comme ça.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

>>21008995

No it doesn't lol. It's Anfangen... something something I forget>>21009000

>>21008982
THAT'S GOATSE

>>21009758
i thought this was it

Are there any books that start with the N word

>>21008982
All of gaul is divided into tree parties

>>21008987
No truer words have been spoken. God bless

>>21008982
>Terra Nostra Carlos Fuentes
Incredible the first animal that dreamed of another animal.
Monstrous the first vertebrate that succeeded in standing on
two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally
and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of
creation. Astounding the first telephone call, the first boiling
water, the first song, the first loincloth.

>>21008982
A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now

>>21008982
>"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
Immediately sets the mood for comfy. Especially Gandalf visiting Bilbo at his house and the dwarves enter into Bilbo's house. The entire first chapter is awesome and comfy really.

>>21009758
Last time it was used for OP post the thread was deleted.

>>21009053
>tfw it rips off the bluest eye

>>21008982
Let's compile a list of the best first sentences, ordered by word count. Here's a suggestion for the first twelve:

1. London. [Bleak House]
2. Who's there? [Hamlet]
3. Call me Ishmael. [Moby-Dick]
4. Elmer Gantry was drunk. [Elmer Gantry]
5. I am an invisible man. [Invisible Man]
6. It was love at first sight. [Catch-22]
7. It was the day my grandmother exploded. [The Crow Road]
8. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. [I Capture the Castle]
9. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. [Lolita]
10. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. [Murphy]
11. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. [The Go-Between]
12. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. [The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]


I'm sure someone can suggest some improvements/additions.

>well well, look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car

>>21009794
If you squint your eyes you see a bunch of gaping assholes.

>>21011392
Just read poetry instead. A B tier poem by Wordsworth has lines greater than this like 5 or 6 times in a short poem.

>>21008982
>>21008982
>A6D84708-E619-4409-835D-C(...).png
That's an AI generated image of goatse.cx isn't it?