4.2+Short+Story+introductions

Find a great opening paragraph from a short story or novel and post it in the discussion section. Describe why you think it is a great opening paragraph. Then comment on a paragraph from someone else.

Here is one of my favourites from //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// by Douglas Adams:

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."