Picture an old-fashioned telephone. the kind that sits on a fancy table in a 1940s movie about wealthy people. It has a large square base, and an ornate receiver sits in a cradle on top. Now picture that image on the front of a tee shirt, but the receiver is shaped like a whale. Below the telephone are the words, "Call me, Ishmael." Amazing what an unusually shaped receiver and a comma. can do.
I haven't seen a tee shirt I wanted to wear since the one that read, "Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt." But I digress.
This post is about opening lines in fiction. Google will show you lists of the best 25 or even 100, from famous novels. Here are a few:
1. The aforementioned "Call me Ishmael" without the comma., from MOBY DICKman Menville.
2. "Last night I dreamed of Manderly again, from my favorite book, REBECCA BY dAPHNE DU mAURIER.
3. As a romlance writer, I also like, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, imust be in want of a wife." ride and prejudice by Jane Austen.
4. "It was the best f times, it was the worst opf time..."
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