BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square186linkfedilinkarrow-up1977arrow-down19
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minus-squareEndymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up45·10 days agoMy favorite opening lines that I didn’t see yet are: Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed” Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And, Gibson’s “Neuromancer” “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 days ago And, Gibson’s “Neuromancer” “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” absolute classic, came here to post it.
My favorite opening lines that I didn’t see yet are:
Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”
Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”
And, Gibson’s “Neuromancer”
absolute classic, came here to post it.