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Message: [QUOTE="trb123, post: 2367193, member: 711"] First two sentences (stretching it a bit) from [I]The Return of the native[/I], one of my favorite novels by Thomas Hardy: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor." Some of you may have a preference for the first sentence from the preface: "The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called “Budmouth” still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige to lend it an absorbing attractiveness to the romantic and imaginative soul of a lonely dweller inland." It is nearly as good as the first sentence in Nabokov's foreword to [I]Lolita[/I]. [/QUOTE]