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That image… Hnn.
O_o, more or less.
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Notes Famous Second LinesI… don’t believe I’ve ever actually reblogged anything, but this caught the mind as pretty snazz. AND SUCH DIVERSIONS ARE ALWAYS… diverting.
Brain caught 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13. 5 sounded familiar, though I’m not sure why I’d’ve remembered that, and think the echo I’m hearing might actually be from something else (maybe not, but it’s been a while on that, and just don’t really remember much of the beginning sticking out).
Oh. And? Particular SHIT YES for 2 and 11.
Oh-ha, 1. I’m not sad that I didn’t click that one. Maybe I ought to re-read that one, but… Feel much-much more fond of other works by the-author. And that one… Hmn. HM.
And I kind of want to set one of these, now. Or just look through second lines. Because book-shifting ist always fun.
Maybe I will begin actually-reblogging things and stuff. Hmn.
We all know there’s a kind of canon concerning famous first lines in literature. How many second lines can you identify? I only got 6, 7, 10, and of course 11! I felt bad I missed 8 and 12. I need to read 13, and 4, but I want 13 more…How’d you do?
1. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clearly and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.
2. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence.
3. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
4. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, ” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
5. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of surrounding families, that he is considered as the right property of some one or the other of their daughters.
6. He had safely avoided meeting the landlady on the stairs.
7. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie-ectoplasms.
8. My sin, my soul.
9. Full of a baby’s venom.
10. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
11. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
12. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
13. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
