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18223. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 4:04:28 AM "NOBODY COULD SLEEP. WHEN MORNING CAME, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on the beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead."
First paragraph.
"The Naked and the Dead"
Norman Mailer 18224. judithathome - 1/15/2006 5:36:08 AM "Who is John Galt?" 18225. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 5:44:20 AM Here's one everybody can guess:
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I dont feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." 18226. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 5:49:41 AM Where is John Galt? 18227. judithathome - 1/15/2006 6:21:25 AM Thanks, Wonkers...where, indeed? 18228. Magoseph - 1/15/2006 10:29:37 AM Jay,
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 18229. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 3:28:33 PM I wish John Galt had died with Ayn Rand. Unfortunately he's replicated and alive and well in our capital. 18230. jayackroyd - 1/15/2006 5:20:32 PM Mags--I posted the same item on TPMCafe--and someone popped up with that. And--I was corrected. Pynchon is better than my memory:
A screaming comes across the sky.
is correct.
Wonk, is that Eggers? 18231. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 5:40:46 PM Jay,
18221--opening line in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" and the opening line in V.S. Naipaul's "Bend in the River."
18225--opening line in J.D. Salinger's "A Catcher in the Rye." 18234. Magoseph - 1/15/2006 11:27:59 PM Hey, Cap'n, your friend Kira went to Sex $ Genders. 18235. Magoseph - 1/15/2006 11:29:26 PM I posted the same item on TPMCafe.
Where, Jay? I looked for it, but no luck so far. By the way, I can't understand that forum any more. I will have to take some time to study it.
I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, so that one was easy. 18236. Magoseph - 1/15/2006 11:33:41 PM I think that I'm really losing it today--Sex $ Genders? I guess being a nurse, a chauffeur, and a shopper is just too much for little me. 18237. concerned - 1/16/2006 2:57:36 AM Upon reflection, I don't know if it's *never* appropriate to use the phrase 'I told you so'. But I wouldn't think it's appropriate in situations of any gravity, except perhaps in cases where one partner made a particularly glaring mistake. 18238. arkymalarky - 1/16/2006 3:37:15 AM Half the fun of being right is getting to say "I told you so."
You don't know me without you've read a book by the name of Tom Sawyer.
Or something to that effect. 18239. jayackroyd - 1/16/2006 4:15:05 AM Here's the link Mags Chime in. Folks had some interesting suggestions.
I'm in the it's wrong to ever say I told you so camp. There's a funny sequence in a Larry Niven short story where one character says to another I Told You So. It has to do with their spaceship's hull disintegrating while they are inside it. 18240. thoughtful - 1/16/2006 7:08:34 PM I saw the article jay about first lines and was disappointed that one of my faves didn't make the top:
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” 18241. judithathome - 1/16/2006 8:38:15 PM Oh, man...that's one of MY faves, too! 18242. PelleNilsson - 1/16/2006 9:16:28 PM Why doesn't
"It was a dark and stormy night"
get at least a honorary mention? 18243. PelleNilsson - 1/16/2006 9:23:07 PM But here is a good one:
"The warning letter arived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week." 18244. Magoseph - 1/16/2006 10:23:32 PM "Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
I give up--who wrote it, Pelle and who wrote mine?
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