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grammargirlI've found the elusive first sentence.
"Fantasy--and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another--is a mirror. A Distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality, but it's a mirror nonetleless which we can use to tell ourselves things we might not otherwise see." --Neil Gaiman, my #1 literary boyfriend, in the introduction to Smoke and Mirrors
The best part? I found this quote by doing a google search for "neil gaiman fantasy quote," thinking I might find something interesting by him about the uses of fantasy or whatever. Imagine my surprise when I learned that it's from Smoke and Mirrors, a book I just happened to have in my backpack today--I wanted to have Lisa read "Snow, Glass, Apples" after we'd talked about modern retellings of fairy tales and I learned that she hadn't read it.
So. Yay serendipity.
Anyway, now that it's taken me a completely obscene amount of time to find my stunning opener, I must now scrabble for lost time to get everything done. So why am I wasting time on LJ, you ask?
I don't know.
"Fantasy--and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another--is a mirror. A Distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality, but it's a mirror nonetleless which we can use to tell ourselves things we might not otherwise see." --Neil Gaiman, my #1 literary boyfriend, in the introduction to Smoke and Mirrors
The best part? I found this quote by doing a google search for "neil gaiman fantasy quote," thinking I might find something interesting by him about the uses of fantasy or whatever. Imagine my surprise when I learned that it's from Smoke and Mirrors, a book I just happened to have in my backpack today--I wanted to have Lisa read "Snow, Glass, Apples" after we'd talked about modern retellings of fairy tales and I learned that she hadn't read it.
So. Yay serendipity.
Anyway, now that it's taken me a completely obscene amount of time to find my stunning opener, I must now scrabble for lost time to get everything done. So why am I wasting time on LJ, you ask?
I don't know.
