I come from Des Moine. Someone has to. From Bill Bryson’s Lost Continent. One of ten first lines we used in an assessment task back in the day. English teachers appreciated it more than students, it seemed!😂
Haha. That's a good one. Very Bill Bryson. Here's another I've always liked. ‘There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’ From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C S Lewis.
I come from Des Moine. Someone has to. From Bill Bryson’s Lost Continent. One of ten first lines we used in an assessment task back in the day. English teachers appreciated it more than students, it seemed!😂
Haha. That's a good one. Very Bill Bryson. Here's another I've always liked. ‘There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’ From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C S Lewis.
Hello Rosie
I love this opening line from Burgess’s ‘Earthly Powers’
‘'It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. '
Best, Neil
Thanks Neil, that's brilliant. I love it!