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Originally Posted by mce
What's the first sentence of your favorite novel?
Here's mine:
?Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.?
What's yours?
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That was one of the best books I've read.
I'll add:
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of a fleshy balloon of a head."
and
"You never hear about a sportsman losing his sense of smell in a tragic accident, and for good reason; in order for the universe to teach excruciating lessons that we are unable to apply in later life, the sportsman must lose his legs, the philosopher his mind, the painter his eyes, the musician his ears, the chef his tongue."