ITT post only the finest, most evocative opening paragraphs.
>It wasn’t a surprise when the world ended. The surprise was that humanity didn’t.
Best openings
Thomas Sanders
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Jonathan Jones
>Call me Ishmael.
three words that signify a ton.
Benjamin Sanchez
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. Lo. Lee. Ta
Connor Nguyen
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Jack Cook
In the beginning God created the heaven for the earth.
Ryan Richardson
>This is the story of a bloodstained boy.
Ethan Anderson
Buck did not read the newspapers
Asher Edwards
>Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
First time I’ve read a sentence by Kafka in English. The translation doesn’t do him right.
Nathaniel Barnes
what does it miss? I quite liked the opening
Wyatt Gray
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold