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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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What other great opening lines do you know?. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] afb@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first line of Shirley Jackson's Haunting Of Hill House is a banger, the complete first paragraph is incredible.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago

Spooky, I'm gonna add this to my list for this month. I like to make sure I get some spook in Oct.