domingo, mayo 13, 2007
Hall of fame
Here are a few of my favorite first lines in books, in no particular order.
Here are a few of my favorite first lines in books, in no particular order.
- "This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper." Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
- "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were." Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- "There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name." Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- "There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire." Neil Gaiman, Stardust
- "This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it." William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- "El profesor Cremallerus se acostaba a las ocho de la noche después de cenar sus galletas de animalitos." Juan Villoro, El profesor Zíper y la fabulosa guitarra eléctrica
- "They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants." Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- "Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild." Rudyard Kipling, The Cat that Walked by Himself
- "Aegidius de Hammo was a man who lived in the midmost parts of the Island of Britain. In full his name was Aegidius Ahenobarbus Agricola de Hammo; for men were richly endowed with names in those days, now long ago, when this island was still happily divided into many kingdoms, and folk were fewer, so that most men were distinguished." J.R.R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham (I know, this is cheating, as it is two sentences, but where can I cheat if it isn't in my own blog?)
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." [it goes on for an entire paragraph, but it is this part that I love]. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- "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 don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- "Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast / Brought Death into the World, and all our woe..." [another long one, but again, I won't go into the whole thing, since this is the part I like]. John Milton, Paradise Lost
Comments:
una es también the catcher in the rye.
otra: "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". de nabokov
otra: "on the morning the last lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide (...) the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope". the virgin suicides de eugenides.
y la más reciente: "testing. one two three. testing. one two three" de survivor de chuck palahniuk
entre muchas otras.
otra: "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". de nabokov
otra: "on the morning the last lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide (...) the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope". the virgin suicides de eugenides.
y la más reciente: "testing. one two three. testing. one two three" de survivor de chuck palahniuk
entre muchas otras.
Amo al Profesor Zíper!
Mis demás first lines las publicaré más tarde en mi blog. T aviso cuando estén!
Mis demás first lines las publicaré más tarde en mi blog. T aviso cuando estén!
"Not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but first it is better to speak of my friendship with John Divney because it was he who first knoecked old Mathers down by giving a great blow in the neck with a special bycicle-pump which he manufactured himself out of a hollow iron bar."
FLANN O'BRIEN, The Third Policeman
El resto de la novela es incomprensible a menos que le hagan a eso de la física cuántica. . .
FLANN O'BRIEN, The Third Policeman
El resto de la novela es incomprensible a menos que le hagan a eso de la física cuántica. . .
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