my two bit:
Two or three years after Partition, the governments of Pakistan and India decided to exchange lunatics in the same way that they had exchanged civilian prisoners. In other words, Muslim lunatics in Indian madhouses would be sent to Pakistan, while Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistani madhouses would be handed over to India
Toba Tek Singh
by Saadat Hasan Manto
PS> i know that the heading on the website says: 100 Best First Lines from *Novels*...but what the heck...Manto's epitaph for himself is also fascinating...
"There Saadat Hasan Manto lies buried…and buried in his breast are all the secrets of the art of story writing. Even now lying buried under tons of earth he wonders whether he or God is the greater writer of the short story"...
you can read toba tek singh here:
http://www.sikh-history.com/literature/stories/tobatek.html
On 2/2/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Heh. I agree with maybe one or two of this list. What are your
favourite first lines?
http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html
Udhay
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does the frog know it has a latin name?
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