{"id":3264,"date":"2013-02-11T21:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2013-02-11T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:55:05","slug":"54-great-opening-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines: 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
\nJane Eyre<\/em>, Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

From today I’m going to attempt a self-imposed challenge:\u00a0 post 54 great opening lines from books on my shelves.\u00a0 After reading a post by Zany4Days<\/a> about challenging himself to paint a watercolour every day for 30 days, 100 days, the whole year, I’ve decided to study the first few words in good stories, an activity which might, which should, affect my own writing.\u00a0 The opening lines that I post will be in English, but not all of them will be from English-language stories.\u00a0 Some will be my translations of great French opening lines.\u00a0 After browsing my bookshelves, I initially chose a figure of 50, but I could possibly come up with four more and make it 54, my age from today…<\/p>\n

I’ll begin with the first line from a novel I read when I was 13 which gave me a plan for my life, a plan I haven’t always followed but, in hindsight, I see has often followed me.\u00a0 It begins with:<\/p>\n

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront\u00eb ***** From today I’m going to attempt a self-imposed challenge:\u00a0 post 54 great opening lines from books on my shelves.\u00a0 After reading a post by Zany4Days about challenging himself to paint a watercolour every day for 30 days, 100 days, the … <\/p>\n

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