(This thread reminds me so much of the old Doc Savage novels, and their penchant for openings designed to grab you right off the bat. They weren't elaborate single sentences, mind you, but elaborate groups of sentences. The "grab" usually didn't take more than 3-4 sentences, or maybe 2 or 3 paragraphs.
As in:
Quote:
Lester Davey, Jr, was actually the first to see the blue octopus. But at the time, he didn't think twice about it.
That was because, at the time he saw the blue octopus, Lester was "three sheets to the wind," as the saying goes... that is, drunk on a cheap bottle of muscatelle. As this was not the first time Lester had been drunk, he was used to seeing things that he knew--at the very least, by the next morning--couldn't really exist. So, when he saw the blue octopus, he was able to dismiss it as a vestige of his inebriated state, and stumble on.
This was why Lester Davey, Jr, was the only one to survive seeing the blue octopus that night.
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Gotta love openings like that!)
(PS: I made this one up, don't go looking for it!)