At last it is admitted

May 20, 2008

by Mags

From an article about quiz night at the local school:

I came roaring out of the starting blocks and mopped up in the first round: first lines from literature. This is because I am a journalist, and all journalists start out adapting famous first lines into their own writing in what they imagine is a very clever and original way. So while my team mates heard “It is a truth universally acknowledged …” and said “Ooh, is that Jane Austen?” I knew full well it was Pride and Prejudice. I created numerous versions of that line to kick off my own articles until an editor took me aside one day and told me to stop trotting out such hackneyed rubbish.

Huzzah for that editor! Huzzah, we say!