Frank and Ernest by Thaves for August 27, 2009
August 26, 2009
August 28, 2009
Transcript:
Ernest says, "'In the beginning' --- is that a great narrative hook or what!"
Ernest says, "'In the beginning' --- is that a great narrative hook or what!"
tbree over 15 years ago
I thought it was supposed to be about baseball: “In the Big Inning….”
margueritem over 15 years ago
It’s been done…
wndrwrthg over 15 years ago
I like ELPs “From the Beginning” better.
fredbuhl over 15 years ago
It left me reeling.
lewisbower over 15 years ago
“In the Beginning” is better than “The End is Near”
Jogger2 over 15 years ago
Genesis or Gospel of John?
KenyarJad over 15 years ago
Doesn’t matter, really. Still a good hook. Although I always wanted to start a book, “In the middle of everything - or at least that’s where everybody says you’re supposed to start…”
lazygrazer over 15 years ago
I think James Michener started that “in the beginning” idea.
bmonk over 15 years ago
I like, “I was born at a very young age…”
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Baslim:
You didn’t mention the sequel. Brown’s story (you sure it was Brown?) was titled “The Shortest Horror Story Ever Told”. The next issue of the same scifi mag contained this:
THE HORROR STORY SHORTER BY ONE LETTER THAN THE SHORTEST HORROR STORY EVER TOLD
The last man on earth sat in a room. There was a lock on the door.
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How’s these for opening hooks?:
“Call me Ishmael Jehovah.”
“Who is John Galt Jehovah?”
“It was the best of Jehovah, it was the worst of Jehovah.”
And to wax poetic (not the same as to wax a car), “Whan that Jehovah with his shoures soote the droughte of March hath perced to the roote,…”
Templo S.U.D. over 15 years ago
I’m with “what”, Friar Ernest.
Oh, the aching carpal tunnel syndrome back in that day before Johann Gutenberg.
calvinandquestionmark over 15 years ago
Joe Allen Doty knows all, tells all
bmonk over 15 years ago
Shortest fairy tale: “Once upon a time, they all lived happily ever after.”