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Worst First Sentence
Tyler Cowen posted the opening sentence of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford, a sentence that often gets mentioned as the worst opening sentence in the history of fiction. It was...
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Daryl Scroggins: This kind of play always gets me excited. It’s easier for me to remember opening lines I like, though, because the ones I don’t like don’t stay with me. But there’s no denying that...
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This has been passed around for a few days, but here is Krugman on the American deficit: Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we’re impoverished by the need to pay back money we’ve been...
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He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one.
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They never mention his full title. He was more than just and artist, He as a Ripoff Artist! I hope someone pisses on your bones for pissing on Winnie the Pooh and grabbing ass while being an obnoxious...
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Clustersource: Without thinking, comment: What’s the first thing you think when you see . . . VC?
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