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Top 10 first lines in fiction
The Guardian ^
| 4-5-2023
| Liz Nugent
Posted on 04/05/2023 8:34:50 PM PDT by Saije
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To: Saije
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times”.
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:23:37 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: Saije
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over”
We are talking fiction after all
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:33:49 AM PDT
by
Cowman
To: Night Hides Not
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:35:35 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: Mark17
Saw your tagline, brought back memories of my tour in Germany long ago. Two years each at Hahn and Spangdahlem, I was in an Air Defense Artillery battalion...great assignment.
I was struck by the expectations for young officers. It seemed that unless you were a pilot, lieutenants weren't given much responsibility. Army lieutenants had the kitchen sink thrown at them.
As a Platoon Leader, I also had 3-4 "extra duties" to oversee, in addition to my Chaparral or Vulcan Platoon. Many spirited conversations in the Hahn O'Club...lol.
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:45:28 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: eyedigress
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:48:01 AM PDT
by
ByteMercenary
(Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
To: Night Hides Not
I was struck by the expectations for young officers. It seemed that unless you were a pilot, lieutenants weren't given much responsibility. It seems that way, since the USAF motto, is to fly and fight. My son wanted to be a nuclear weapons maintenance officer, but since the USAF was short of pilots, they only offered him pilot training, nothing else, so now, he is a pilot. ππ€
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posted on
04/06/2023 3:57:12 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: Mark17
1941 USAAC motto at Kelly Field, San Antonio, was literally Be of Courage and Honor
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:08:31 AM PDT
by
linMcHlp
To: Saije
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
(We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.)
To: Mark17
I hear you, funny how the military does that. I was sure that I would enter the Army as a Finance Corps LT, as the Army paid for my degree in public accounting.
Nope...I was commissioned an ADA officer. Actually, it worked out well. The last job I had in Germany was Battalion Supply Officer. Made a small amount of money on the side, audited the books of the Spangdahlem AB Officers Wives Club.
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:09:41 AM PDT
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Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: Saije
Everyone references great literature, but what about beach bookery? The schlock from Lee Child, or Dean Koontz, or Edward Rutherford that you read because you don't want to watch television, but also don't want to have anything to think about.
"My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the alter at which most people worship, I'm not sure why you should care."
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:24:13 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: DejaJude
I was hoping someone would mention the Dawn Treader! Absolute classic.
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:38:56 AM PDT
by
Claud
To: DannyTN
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:48:41 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: linMcHlp
I have been to Kelly, Randolph and was at Laughlin for 9 years. My son was at Randolph, for part of his pilot training.
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:49:58 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Snoopy. One of literature’s greats.
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:50:02 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: DannyTN; ProtectOurFreedom; SaveFerris; PROCON; gundog
Ah, Tolstoy, the great Russian writer. He was right up there with Yuri Testikov (published by Pendant).
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posted on
04/06/2023 4:52:33 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: alexander_busek
“Call me Larry.”
Love it! “Thank you. We’ll call you when your order is ready.”
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posted on
04/06/2023 5:01:22 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Saije
“During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the Autumn of the year, as the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been making my way on horseback through a singularly dreary tract of country, when, at length I came, as the shadows of evening drew nigh, within sight of the melancholy HOUSE OF USHER.”
(Caps mine)
Poe
I hope I got it all and in the right order. I remember it from a classical English course I took as an undergrad.
Do they still study the classics in college?
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posted on
04/06/2023 5:02:30 AM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(I'll be good, I will, I will!)
To: Saije
To: Saije
“expecting to see ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ (A Tale of Two Cities) or ‘Call me Ishmael (Moby Dick)’, “
Those were the first two that popped into my mind.
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posted on
04/06/2023 5:07:00 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
To: eyedigress
I just re-read the first few pages of
"The Call of the Wild". Wow, I've forgotten what a great book that is and what a remarkable and inventive storyteller London was.
Thanks for posting that.
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posted on
04/06/2023 5:16:03 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(I donβt like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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