It was the best of times...

[sylvar]

I'm adding opening lines to a database to be selected randomly for the new library catalog.  I'm not planning to spend lots more time on the opening-lines database, but if there are some you'd like to suggest, please go ahead.

See the quotes here: http://bernie.tblc.org/suncat2/demo/

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[shlafe.livejournal.com]

Heh. I posted the opening lines to my favorite books a while back.

here they are for your quoting pleasure:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by my man Mark Twain
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.

Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.


Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, by JK Rawling
The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

*laugh* You already had 2.5 of them up there!
(I say .5 because you have a different Potter book.)

Tell me I was your inspiration. :)

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are my muse. I just don't know which muse you are...