Gundy Dopps, a sour-looking little pinch of white
trash,
waddled out of his trailer that morning somehow
knowing
it wasn't going to be his day. Unfortunately, this was
one of those rare times that his intuition was right.
--Len
>----------
>From: E J M
Duggan[SMTP:eddie.duggan@suffolk.ac.uk]
>Sent: 12 December, 1997 9:43 AM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Best opening line of a
novel
>
>I recently came across this goodie from Goodis
(although it's a
>paragraph rather than a sentence):
>
> It was a tough break. Parry was innocent.
> On top of that he was a decent sort of guy who
never
> bothered people and who wanted to lead a quiet
life.
> But there was too much on the other side and on his
side
> of it there was practically nothing. The jury
decided
> he was guilty. The judge hamded him a life
sentence
> and he was taken to San Quentin.
>
> David Goodis, _Dark Passage_ (1946)
>
>ED
>
>BTW guys, thanks for the responses to the Goodis
bibligraphy post.
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