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Ask HN: What's a great opening line you know?
A book, a movie, a HN comment, whatever.
- andsoitis 3mo ago"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond" (Things Fall Apart). It's a line that does character, culture, and foreshadowing all at once without straining any of them.
- chistev 3mo agoGreat book. That boy calls you father, do not bear a hand in his death.
- jonjacky 3mo agoPreviously: Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271 9 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments
- chistev 3mo agoI missed this, thank you.
- 1337h4xx 3mo agoWe were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.