Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Just to set the record straight (it's a great beginning):

"For a long time, I went to bed early."
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
Why Ishmael?
 
>From Proust's madeleines to Du Maurier's Manderley, first lines set the reader on track - but not always the right one. John Sutherland ponders the enigma of beginnings . . .