The title is misleading because they included short stories as well as novels, so the end of "The Dead" by James Joyce is rightfully included -
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
This is some bullshit. How about:
ReplyDelete"And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out."
I like that last line - it's the 10,000 lines before it I have trouble with, though I'll wrestle'em to the floor one day
ReplyDeleteBrother Timmy likes beginnings and this is the only one I have committed to memory -
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.