Why NOT "A screaming comes across the sky"?

[Otto]

Yeah, agreed, and it's the only short sentence in Proust's whole book.

Otto

2006/8/27, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> Just to set the record straight (it's a great beginning):
>
> "For a long time, I went to bed early."
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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 . . .
>