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Old 10-10-2009, 03:01 PM   #61
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"I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army".

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Old 10-10-2009, 04:26 PM   #62
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"I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army".

This is an easy one.

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Old Man's War?
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Old 10-10-2009, 06:11 PM   #63
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Old 10-10-2009, 10:32 PM   #64
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"Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs."
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Old 10-10-2009, 10:35 PM   #65
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."


Oh... wait, maybe this wasn't an SF novel. But, it is a great opening line.

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Old 10-11-2009, 02:14 AM   #66
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Old 10-11-2009, 02:26 PM   #67
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Old 10-11-2009, 08:24 PM   #68
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THIS WAS A GOLDEN AGE, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
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I always get the shakes before a drop. I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid. The ship's psychiatrist has checked my brain waves and asked me silly questions while I was asleep and he tells me that it isn't fear, it isn't anything important - it's just like the trembling of an eager race horse in the starting gate.

I couldn't say about that; I've never been a race horse. But the fact is: I'm scared silly, every time.
Wait, I'm confused. Are these opening lines, or just more wonderful recollections of your Convention Years, Dennis?

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Old 10-11-2009, 08:40 PM   #69
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Wait, I'm confused. Are these opening lines, or just more wonderful recollections of your Convention Years, Dennis?

Cheers,
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Some of these seem to be opening paragraphs.
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Old 10-11-2009, 09:17 PM   #70
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Wait, I'm confused. Are these opening lines, or just more wonderful recollections of your Convention Years, Dennis?

Cheers,
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Opening lines. I don't suppose I have to identify them.

But you did make me think about lines that coiuld be applicable to convention experiences. Maybe something from E.E Smith's Lensman series, comparing someone's intellect to that of a Zabriskan Fontema...
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Opening lines. I don't suppose I have to identify them.
It's probably best you don't, for my sake. My mind likes the idea of them being the openings of chapters from your memoirs (a book I would certainly buy).

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It's probably best you don't, for my sake. My mind likes the idea of them being the openings of chapters from your memoirs (a book I would certainly buy).

Cheers,
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No. I'm dull and boring. I'm just fortunate enough to know number a number of folks who aren't.
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This is not one I remembered but ran across it and it is a great one. Let's see if anyone recognizes it:

"If a female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter otherwise, do not."
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This is not one I remembered but ran across it and it is a great one. Let's see if anyone recognizes it:

"If a female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter otherwise, do not."
Hint: the book is available in an omnibus edition in the MR ebooks section...
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Yes Sir, which I just downloaded to re-read and the reason I ran across it.
I read all of these many many moons ago.
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