I started the first lines posts because it's something that every writer has to deal with. Authors can be mellifluous like Pat Conroy or Technical like Tom Clancy, but they all have to deal with that first line. I'm finding that they all seem to like to describe the morning too. I thought about doing this string of posts when I read Tough Cookie and Diane Mott Davidson described the morning as pearl (?). Now, having read how Ian Fleming describes the morning in Diamonds are Forever, I feel compelled to take the task on.
In this snippet Bond is arriving in the US from an overnight flight from England. It's starts out with some pretty standard fare, but it's the last few words that grab the reader.
"He went forward to the washroom and shaved, and gargled away the taste of a night of pressurized air, and then he went back to his seat between the lines of crumpled, stirring passengers and had his usual moment of exhileration as the sun came up over the rim of the world and bathed the cabin in blood."
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