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Don DeLillo, the Art of Fiction No. 135
- ArtWomb 5y agoThe station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus. In single file they eased around the orange I-beam sculpture and moved toward the dormitories. The roofs of the station wagons were loaded down with carefully secured suitcases full of light and heavy clothing; with boxes of blankets, boot and shoes, stationary and books, sheets, pillows, quilts; with rolled-up rugs and sleeping bags; with bicycles, skis, rucksacks, English and Western saddles, inflated rafts. As cars slowed to a crawl and stopped, students sprang out and raced to the rear doors to begin removing the objects inside; the stereo sets, radios, personal computers; small refrigerators and table ranges; the cartons of phonograph records and cassettes; the hairdryers and styling irons; the tennis rackets, soccer balls, hockey and lacrosse sticks, bows and arrows; the controlled substances, the birth control pills and devices; the junk food still in shopping bags--onion-and-garilc chips, nacho thins, peanut creme patties, Waffelos and Kabooms, fruit chews and toffee popcorn; the Dun-Dun pops, the Mystic mints. -1st paragraph of White Noise, 1986. As fine an opening to a 20th century novel as you'll find ;)
- richardfontana 5y ago> Years ago somebody decided—I don’t know how this conclusion was reached—that the most beautiful phrase in the English language was cellar door. That was Tolkien: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cellar_door http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cellar_door
- hammock 5y agoOddly, the cellar door is the most memorable part of Wizard of Oz for me. (There is a lot of strong imagery and I might be the only one though)
- mitchbob 5y agoArchived: https://archive.ph/GJWAq https://archive.ph/GJWAq