#openinglines — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openinglines, aggregated by home.social.
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(I have always thought that the first sentence of James Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS is up there with some of the great opening lines in literature …)
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #Spartacus #OpeningLines #LewisGrassicGibbon
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"The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it."
Opening paragraph of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
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It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
https://www.metafilter.com/205160/2024-Bulwer-Lytton-winners-announced
#Bulwer #BulwerLytton #DarkAndStormyNight #Lytton #OpeningLines #prizes #winners
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#Black #students #weigh #mentioning #race in #college #admissions #essays after #SCOTUS #affirmativeaction #ruling.
#LynijahRussell #debated the #openinglines of her #video #application to #BrownUniversity for weeks before deciding to be as #candid about her #identity as possible.
“Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a #Black #girl in #STEM"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Race #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
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#Black #students #weigh #mentioning #race in #college #admissions #essays after #SCOTUS #affirmativeaction #ruling.
#LynijahRussell #debated the #openinglines of her #video #application to #BrownUniversity for weeks before deciding to be as #candid about her #identity as possible.
“Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a #Black #girl in #STEM"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Race #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
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#Netflix’s new series #EverythingNow will #shedlight on #eatingdisorders in the #LGBTQIA #community.
With the #openinglines being an exasperated Mia saying “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Give me a f**king break”, you know that this series is going to be great. The #series #stars #StephenFry as the #protagonist’s #doctor.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Streaming #Representation #Culture
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/09/07/netflix-everything-now/