Sunday, April 12, 2009
Exciting.
Projects to do. Books to read. Things to send. Essays to write. Concerts to see. Places to go. Songs to hear. Decisions to be made. TV to watch. Talks to talk. Exciting.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Start
When I was little, my grandmother used to tell me that the first line of a book is the best one. That you can tell what the book is going to be like just from that line. I don't know if that's true, but I always remembered it.
"I have been afraid of putting air into a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."
-First line of "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
"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."
-First line of "The Catcher in the Rye." by J.D. Salinger
"I have been afraid of putting air into a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."
-First line of "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
"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."
-First line of "The Catcher in the Rye." by J.D. Salinger
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