Best opening lines?

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.

>>9348474
>It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>9348474
He had two enemies left; one, if you discounted God, which I would strongly advise against, desu.

Sprightly, pert Black Nigginson swung off the staircase sporting a bottle of port under which lay coiled some rope and a rubber cock.

"Kyrie eleison", he blurted bluntly.

>>9348485
Sounds like shit

>>9349245
That's a good one anon

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.