From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:41:40 -0800, Kay Shapero   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
      
   >> Of course, we want to be interesting, the get the quality   
   >> of being interesting.  What do you think makes a   
   >> fragment or piece of writing interesting?   
      
   > No idea - but John Varley's celebrated opener to Steel   
   > Beach certainly got my attention. Partly unexpectedness,   
   > partly if the author got that one through, the rest of   
   > the book should be interesting too which it turned out to   
   > be.   
      
   I got a chuckle out of the opening of Dirk’s _Ein Prinz zu   
   Tulivar_; it’s due out next year from Atlantis Verlag, but   
   the first two chapters have been previewed on the   
   publisher’s site.  My translation:   
      
      It was cold, it was dark, and snow lay everywhere.   
      
      Nevertheless, we were determined to find out who   
      could pee further.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
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