Opening Lines, 3rd Ed.
This Fall the Miscellany’s weekly contest asks you to identify books from their opening lines. Here is the third entry. You are encouraged not to Google but we have no way, of course, of verifying that you didn’t. Email werneri or workm with your answers by Sat. 11/16 at 3pm. The winner will be picked at random from all the correct entries received and will receive either a t-shirt or a copy of one of Greg Smith’s novels.
Opening Lines
1. “All this happened, more or less.”
2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
3. “Who’s there?”
4. “The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette.”
5. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”