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 Monday, January 30, 2006
					
					
					  Little bits of pleasure
 
 Via Feministe a list of the 100 Best First Lines from Novels.
 
 I am inordinately proud of the fact that my favorite book is listed (#73) as is what I consider to be the greatest novel ever written (#4), as well as a few other favorites (#3, #14, and #80).
 
 I think this one was the birth of snark:
 
 47. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. —C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
 
 ...and as much as I love Sinclair Lewis, #90 is a disaster.
 
 
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