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What is your favourite opening line, or paragraph, of all time, /lit/, is there a particular reason you like it? Mine is:
> "That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window."

>> No.5587269

>A screaming comes across the sky.

>> No.5587282

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously."

>> No.5587294

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."

and

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

>> No.5587340

>>5587268
Fuck yeah Raymond Carver. I don't get why 99% of the posters on the board seemingly haven't read the modern master of the American short story.

>> No.5587361

BOY PUSSY

>> No.5587496

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

>> No.5587509

>>5587268
It was love at first sight.

>> No.5587512

>>5587340
I've read him, and my gut reaction was to say, "Nah, most people on this board have read Carver," but then I realized this might not be true and I might constantly overestimate the amount these other people read.

>> No.5587514

It will be a bright and calm day.

>> No.5587528

>>5587294
>the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
try to guess how much of a fuck they give when translating that alliteration.

>> No.5587534

>>5587512
Not so many people really get into short story, I think that a lot of novel readers dislike the short form and vice versa.

>> No.5587538

>>5587534
Novella reader master race reporting in.

>> No.5587765

>>5587538
Middle grounds are rarely the best of both worlds. As a short story reader I feel the novella is too long to go into the insane amount of detail you can get with a short story and falls too short of the content a full novel would have. But it really depends more in each work, if we compare shitty fanfics no format will look good.

>> No.5587835

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

>> No.5587858
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5587858

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

>> No.5587863

>>5587858
I really, really like that image.

>> No.5587893
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5587893

George is my name; my deeds have been heard of in Tower Hall, and my childhood has been chronicled in the Journal Of Experimental Psychology.

>> No.5587896

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.