A Good Opening Line
You can read here below the opening line of Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, from the 1939 collection of Tales before Midnight, by Stephen Vincent Benét:
"You don't hear so much about the Fool-Killer these days, but when Johnny Pye was a boy there was a good deal of talk about him."We don't hear much about the fool killer these days? I doubt anyone ever heard much about him. But I took time enough to read the story yesterday, so I now know all about the fellow.
Read here.
Labels: Literature
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:24 AM
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4 Comments:
I don't think the concept of the fool killer is acceptable these days. How might you compose the trigger warning?
TRIGGER WARNING: DON'T LOOK AT THESE WORDS! Even this warning can be fatal.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks,. I am averting my eyes even as I typo thiss,.
Too late.
Jeffery Hodges
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