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Thread #136957   Message #3131798
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
09-Apr-11 - 05:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Books - Best Opening Lines Ever
Subject: RE: BS: Books - Best Opening Lines Ever
Not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but first it is better to speak of my friendship with John Divney because it was he who first knocked old Mathers down by giving him a great blow in the neck with a special bicycle-pump which he manufactured himself out of a hollow iron bar.

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman.

Perfection!