Favourite opening lines in a book?"My name is Ishmael" - Hunting A White Whale, Henry Melville
meh.
The war is over, Sonia. Now it is time for peace.
Reddit thread. I suppose you want me to say "Maman died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday."
>>24746302>you're reddit for doing this>cant resist doing it toosup reddit
>‘Eh bien, mon prince, Gênes et Lucques ne sont plus que des apanages, des family estates de la famille Buonaparte.* Non, je vous préviens, qui si vous ne me dites pas, que nous avons la guerre, si vous vous permettez encore de pallier toutes les infamies, toutes les atrocités de cet Antichrist (ma parole, j’y crois)—je ne vous connais plus, vous n’êtes plus mon ami, vous n’êtes plus my faithful slave, comme vous dites. Well, how do you do? How do you do? Je vois que je vous fais peur1—sit down and tell me all the news.’-Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace (1869).
I fucking hate this place.-anon. my diary, desu.
Call me Ishmael (he/him)
My living was filled with lots of bad moments for me.Asamu Dozaemon - Used To Be Human
from "the diary of a rapist".>"THERE she goes grinding her FUCKING teeth."
>>24746280Sing Goddess, the rage of Achilles...
"I turned myself into a cockroach, Mom! I'm cockroach Gregor!"– The Metamorphosis
>>24746280"Tell me about a complicated man." - Homer, Odyssey
>>24746280Today I consider it my good fortune that Fate designated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth.
If there was around the corpse of Heliogabalus, tombless, its throat cut by his police force in his palace latrines, a heavy flow of blood and excrement, there was around his cradle a heavy flow of sperm
>>24746280SWIM was somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
>>24746342Are we not meant to ridicule bilinguals
>>24746653Kek
>In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some dick that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Golden retriever pancake
>IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN - Fahrenheit 451The book is not that great, though. I think it only became popular because it makes pretentious people who like to talk about how much they read to everyone feel special...
>A scream ejaculated through the air.- Tom Pinchon, "Prismatic Rockets"
>>24746859more like The Gay Gatsby
>>24746918honestly better than the real thing
It was bad time. It was good time.- Tale of 2 City
Reader, I must confess to you: I have committed a crime and am in need of punishment!
>>24746280It was a dark and stormy night when stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
>>24746280>I’m Emily Elizabeth, and I have a dog.
>>24746280It's not the opening line, but what hooked me early on was reading the protagonist's motivation for signing up for a whaling crew.>Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.It's so fucking good.
>I am a sick man, I am a wicked man. An unattractive man>Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human beingWhich one did it best?
limbus faggots
SEE THE CHILD
best thread to collect passphrase down there...
>>24749533Ok I see him. Now what
>>24746280>Ishmael 1 hehehe
>>24750411aw it turned into a big one
>>24746280kill all niggers - Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
>>24748093this is quite good,quite, quite goodidk if anyone can help out with this but I really enjoy the paragraph where melville describes the ship and its crew like hell and its devils
>Ugrasrava, the son of Lomaharshana, surnamed Sauti, well-versed in the Puranas, bending with humility, one day approached the great sages of rigid vows, sitting at their ease, who had attended the twelve years' sacrifice of Saunaka, surnamed Kulapati, in the forest of Naimisha.And it just goes on like this
