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Maybe there should be a contest to turn great first sentences into Lyton worthy bad sentences.

The man in Black ambulated with passion across the Desert, and the Gunslinger said I'm gonna do that too.

My given appellation, which I hereby grant permission to you and any other interested parties to use when speaking in reference to me, is Ishmael.

It was the best of times--no, wait, the worst--well, maybe both at the same time.

Everyone knows rich single dudes wanna get hitched.

At 13:00 hrs the weather was normal for April.

The did things different back then, like how they do things different in foreign parts.

In an office, I was seated, looking around at what I saw only as the heads and bodies of the people all around me.

The Book, Alpha 0: The Entity created everythingness from nondescript nothingness, and as with contemporary cosmology, this was as good a place to start as any other. A place for life.

This feels spectacularly Pratchett-esque. I would not be surprised to see this as the first sentence of a Discworld novel :P

Who's gonna break the news?

Hey now, don't make me sad. In my heart I still like to pretend that Discworld will always have more books to read :'(

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