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Originally Posted by kennyc
Agreed, maybe the saying should be more 'do no harm.' 
I read a short story over the weekend and the first two sentences totally drove me batty, I wanted to throw my ereader across the room and actually skipped the story because after re-reading the sentences half-a dozen times they still made little sense.... I decided later to come back and found that after I got past those first two sentences the author actually settled down and wrote a nice narrative. UI'm convinced that those two sentences were written and re-written and re-written trying to create a killer opening.
In case you are wondering, the story is in the latest Pen/OHenry Awards 2012 - "Nothing Living Lives Alone" by Wendell Berry |
You scared me, Kenny. For a minute I thought you were talking about MY opening lines.
(Wait. You're NOT talking about my opening lines, right?)