Meme Time

[la_samtyr]

I found this "first line" meme on my fb page and thought I'd have some fun... who else wants to play? :)

I'll start: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun."

Comments

[gilli-ann.livejournal.com]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

(Wanted to go with the much longer first line of LotR, but discovered I had a couple of words wrong when I checked. So...)

[engarian.livejournal.com]

"Who is John Galt?"

I've been a long-time and many time reader of "Atlas Shrugged" for years and years and years.

- Erulisse (one L)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I'm terrible about remembering quotes verbatim, but Tolkien fortunately made "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." very easy to remember!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in need of a wife.

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.