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What is the greatest opening sentence in literature?
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What is the greatest opening sentence in literature?
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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>>7613325
>>7613325
My whole life I've been a fraud.
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Gotta go with the classic
>My name's Ishmael.
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>So there I was, chilling in the Hypersphere.
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
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>>7613335
isn't it "Call me Ishmael"?
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>>7613335

>A shout comes across the skies.

Gravity's Rainbow is the only classic.
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>>7613378
Not as classic as
>I am seated surrounded by heads and bodies in a room.
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>>7613442
>2deep4u
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"I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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>>7613335
And call me Ishmael.
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