New Book Meme I'm Inventing.

Every now and then I like to go back and re-read books I've already read that have had a significant effect on me. I started to do so today, and I was struck by just how great of an opening sentence it had. I know that it's kind of an art nowadays to have a really good attention grabbing opening line, but this book surprised me with it because the rest of it has had such an impact on me that I'd never really focused on literarily.

At any rate, I'm going to post the first line of it for others to guess at and post in the comments. I may do more of these in the future, but only if I come across other great openers. The line:

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.