{"id":9776,"date":"2017-10-14T07:13:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9776"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T09:03:43","slug":"46-great-opening-lines-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9776","title":{"rendered":"46 Great Opening Lines: 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Montmartre, on the third floor of 75b Rue d&#8217;Orchampt, there lived an excellent gentleman called Dutilleul, who possessed the singular gift of passing through walls without any trouble at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <em>The Man Who Walked Through Walls<\/em>, 1941, Marcel Aym\u00e9, translated by Sophie Lewis<\/p>\n<p>In my previous post about a great opening line I introduced the French author, Marcel Aym\u00e9, and his short story, <em>The Wolf<\/em>, written for children albeit with a pretty scary moral. Aym\u00e9 also wrote fantasy for adults, and is possibly most famous for his tale about a man who walked through walls. There are several English translations around, but this one (above) is the best I could lay my hands on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9778\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9778 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Man-who-walked-through-walls-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Man-who-walked-through-walls.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Man-who-walked-through-walls-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Man-who-walked-through-walls-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man in the Wall, tribute to Marcel Aym\u00e9, photo courtesy of www.briansolis.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Montmartre, on the third floor of 75b Rue d&#8217;Orchampt, there lived an excellent gentleman called Dutilleul, who possessed the singular gift of passing through walls without any trouble at all. From The Man Who Walked Through Walls, 1941, Marcel Aym\u00e9, translated by Sophie Lewis In my previous post about a great opening line I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;46 Great Opening Lines: 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[358,156,716,2,1104,246,417,1121,1120,3],"class_list":["post-9776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46-great-opening-lines","tag-france","tag-french-literature","tag-literary-translation","tag-literature","tag-marcel-ayme","tag-opening-lines","tag-sculpture","tag-sophie-lewis","tag-the-man-who-walked-through-walls","tag-translation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9803,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9776\/revisions\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}