What's a great opening line you know?

Question

A book, a movie, a HN comment, whatever.

jonjacky · Accepted Answer

Previously:Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489082719 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments

andsoitis · Answer

"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond" (Things Fall Apart).It's a line that does character, culture, and foreshadowing all at once without straining any of them.

1337h4xx · Answer

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

What's a great opening line you know?

A book, a movie, a HN comment, whatever.

Previously:
Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271
9 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments

"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond" (Things Fall Apart).
It's a line that does character, culture, and foreshadowing all at once without straining any of them.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.