--- Bob Toomey <
btoomey@javanet.com> wrote:
> The problem with playing this game is that
really
> good last lines don't make
> much sense if you haven't read the story that
went
> before them.
I agree, but I think of that as part of the game. I know that
this may be shocking on a list where everyone always agrees
about definitions, but I think I may have some different
criteria in mind when I said
"Top Five," one of which is that the line / passage is
interesting all by itself--whether it resonates the same as
it would if you had read the book is a different question.
Having said that, though, I'll note that I rejected the last
lines of Burke's HEAVEN'S PRISONERS and Cain's DOUBLE
INDEMNITY for this reason.)
> The best last
> line I've ever read comes at the end of
*Rogue
> Moon* by Algis Budrys:
> "Remember me to her."
I haven't read the book, but that sounds like a good one to
me. Full of ironic potential, at any rate.
> I like to think my cats would do the same for
me.
I would too, but in my heart of hearts I know that after
chasing the rats away they'd start fighting over who gets the
good parts.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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