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enamouredA few days ago I got angry at the world and wrote a big rant about socioeconomic status and why certain people are turning girls into shallow, materialistic little be-yatches, but it was way too ranty and long even by my standards. So I saved it for another time.
...but anyway! Two things:
1. Are there any good books about summer camp? I have no idea why, but I am wanting to read something about camp. It reminds me of how, when I was a kid, I wanted to go to summer camp because of Salute Your Shorts.
2. What's your favorite first line from a book? Any book, every book, fiction or non. I'm making icons of first lines, and so far I have only five and they're all from books that I like.
The ones I have so far:
"You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't."--from Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (and okay, that's technically not the first line of the novel; but it's the first line of the first chapter so I say that counts)
"The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east."--from The Westing Game by Ellen Rankin
"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy."--from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
"Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie."--from The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
"Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation when you're dead."--from A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
I was going to do the first line from A Separate Peace, but it's too long.
I am thinking about making another mood theme or looking for a new one. Especially one with cartoon characters (Snoopy mood theme = best EVARZ).
...but anyway! Two things:
1. Are there any good books about summer camp? I have no idea why, but I am wanting to read something about camp. It reminds me of how, when I was a kid, I wanted to go to summer camp because of Salute Your Shorts.
2. What's your favorite first line from a book? Any book, every book, fiction or non. I'm making icons of first lines, and so far I have only five and they're all from books that I like.
The ones I have so far:
"You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't."--from Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (and okay, that's technically not the first line of the novel; but it's the first line of the first chapter so I say that counts)
"The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east."--from The Westing Game by Ellen Rankin
"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy."--from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
"Sometimes it seems like all I ever do is lie."--from The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
"Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation when you're dead."--from A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
I was going to do the first line from A Separate Peace, but it's too long.
I am thinking about making another mood theme or looking for a new one. Especially one with cartoon characters (Snoopy mood theme = best EVARZ).
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:08 pm (UTC)2] "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 stps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
"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."
" When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 11:31 pm (UTC)I was going to put that, too! :D
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:01 am (UTC)"It is a truth, universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificance, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
"All children, except one, grow up"
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. -- "
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-20 01:37 am (UTC)hands down.
it sums up the entire novel, creates its own motif and kind of rolls off your tounge.