| Re: It was a dark & stormy night: Favourite beginnings & endings
This beginning may be out of place here. The passage is not from a book or a short story. It is the first passage of the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Which leads to the best ending paragraph of any book:
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding. O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. |