From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:55:18 AM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > Setting and genre *in the first sentence*... really?  Soon, yes. But "first   
   sentence" is just crazy talk.  My favorite first sentence ever? "There are   
   some mistakes that "Oops" just doesn't cover."  Can you tell me the setting or   
   the genre?  Of course    
   you can't.   
      
   OTOH, what does this tell you?   
      
   "Fergus slipped into an alley behind the dungeons and checked the talisman one   
   last time."   
      
   A counterpoint is Heinlein's "Drop that wrench," where we only know the   
   setting is someplace where you might find a wrench.   
      
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