Posted by susandanziger (admin)
Jun 6, 2011 9:21 pm

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

  Jun 7, 2011 9:16 am
  by DominiqueM

• It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen

  Jun 7, 2011 12:32 pm
  by Golem100

• He woke, and remembered dying. (from The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod)

  Jun 7, 2011 12:35 pm
  by Golem100

• “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.” (The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler)

  Jun 7, 2011 12:43 pm
  by Golem100

• The espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake. (The Pale Horse, Agatha Christie)

  Jun 7, 2011 12:44 pm
  by Golem100

• It was a plesure to burn. (Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)

  Jun 7, 2011 12:55 pm
  by Golem100

• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley.

  Jun 8, 2011 5:34 am
  by OldVin

• Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food. Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell (I think it WILL be a classic novel so have expanded your definition alittle.)

  Jun 10, 2011 1:51 pm
  by dreamdust

• "I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale." Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Jun 13, 2011 12:19 am
  by maryhada

• "Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean." Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Jun 13, 2011 12:42 am
  by maryhada

• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy- Anna K.

  Jun 13, 2011 6:07 am
  by dreamdust

• Great suggestions everyone. I can imagine launching several of these story chains so your help is much appreciated. I'd like to start off with a line from a true classic novel (several good ones here). I've decided to kick off this challenge with dreamdust's suggestion from Anna Karenina (Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way). You can contribute to the story chain here.
  
  

  Jun 13, 2011 10:48 am
  by susandanziger (admin)

• Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.

  Aug 9, 2011 4:47 pm
  by Niel