Surely there are few opening lines in literature more famous (or more effective) than the one from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." And Shirley Jackson begins her story, Before Autumn: "All that summer she had been increasingly aware of the growing turbulence among the trees, and in the grasses, and around the hills..."
Surely there are few opening lines in literature more famous (or more effective) than the one from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." And Shirley Jackson begins her story, Before Autumn: "All that summer she had been increasingly aware of the growing turbulence among the trees, and in the grasses, and around the hills..."
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