The 10 best first lines in fiction. The 10 best first lines in fiction. Ulysses (1922)âStately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.â This is the classic third-person opening to the 20th-century novel that has shaped modern fiction, pro and anti, for almost a hundred years.
On the sign-in desk, however, was another announcement. This one detailed the funeral arrangements of the assistant supervisor of this shelter. His name was Ray Felix, and he died of a heart attack at age 60 on Sunday. It is curious that his life and death, and the life of Patrick Ewing should be juxtaposed here.
Tom Pryce. Pryce was killed in one of the most bizarre accidents in the history of Formula 1. At the end of lap 21 of the Grand Prix at Kyalami, South Africa, on March 5, 1977, Renzo Zorzi retired his Shadow with a split fuel pipe which had caused a small, but harmless fire.