[lit-ideas] Opening lines

From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:26:28 +0900

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my
catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
That's the opening line from *Earthly Powers* by Anthony Burgess. Would you
continue reading?

John

-- 
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
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