Josef K.’s trail started on the morning of his 30th birthday, when two officials came to arrest him. The trail ended on the eve of his 31st birthday, when two officials came to take him away for execution. In between, a mind boggling and incomprehensible trail—or process, if you will—takes place. It’s a shadowy business,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: First Lines
First Lines: Paper Towns.
John Green‘s Paper Towns kept me up ’til 3 in the morning. Two days in a row. The only reason I put it down was because I could not keep my eyes open any more and the words became a blur. In Paper Towns, the socially awkward, nerdy male protagonist has this secret crush-like obsession… Read more »
Eerste zinnen: Geloven in een God die niet bestaat
In Geloven in een God die niet bestaat: Manifest van een atheïstische dominee legt Klaas Hendrikse uit dat a) God niet bestaat zoals, zeg, een appeltaart bestaat, en b) dat er achter de komma nog best te geloven valt in een niet bestaande God. Hoe werkt dat dan? Het niet bestaan van God is simpel:… Read more »
First Lines: The Year of Living Biblically
People use the bible to justify just about everything. There are those that object to same-sex marriage because the bible says that marriage is a sacred institution meant for a man and a woman. There are those that protest at funerals of gay people because the book of Deuteronomy says that thou shalt not lie… Read more »
First Lines: Looking for Alaska
Miles “Pudge” Halter, the protagonist in John Green’s Looking for Alaska, is a nerdy guy with a geeky streak: he has a thing for famous last words. In order to seek “The Great Perhaps” (last words of French poet François Rabelais) he heads off to a boarding school miles from home. There, for the first… Read more »