Comments on: Thirty Three Things (v. 16)

By: Extra-Extraordinary » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

Extra-Extraordinary » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:09:17 +0000

[...] Friday, Joe Carter mentioned a survey of the 50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:02:10 +0000

Here’s an opening line better than at least 20 that made the list:
“After the thing was all over, when peril had ceased to loom and happy endings had been distributed in heaping handfuls and we were driving home with our hats on the side of our heads, having shaken the dust of Steeple Bumpleigh from our tyres, I confessed to Jeeves that there had been moments during the recent proceedings when Bertram Wooster, though no weakling, had come very near to despair.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, 1946 (Jeeves in the Morning in U.S. edition)
I would put it at number 1 myself.

By: Church buildings | Cranach: The Blog of Veith

Church buildings | Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:01:45 +0000

[...] HT: Joe Carter [...]

By: Kamilla

Kamilla — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:20:14 +0000

#49 made me laugh out loud in an airport. When in airports, I always seem to be reading things which make me laugh out loud. I get the oddest looks because no one else ever seems to find what they are reading the least bit amusing.

#47 Should probably be #1 if ranked in order.

I bought the books at #76 and #82 simply on the basis of their opening lines and thoroughly enjoyed them both.

I’m with Stuart on the Hobbit.

Kamilla

By: ahem

ahem — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:37:40 +0000

I might re-name that article: “10 of the Most Extraordinary Churches of the World and 40 That Are Real Dogs”

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:45:50 +0000

In re: No.2: Egregious omission: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:17:53 +0000

I presume the term “extraordinary’ in regard to (1) should not be deemed a synonym for “beautiful?

By: William L. Harnist

William L. Harnist — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:14:08 +0000

100 BEST FIRST LINES:

“Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted in his mug.”

Young Lonigan, James T. Farrell, 1932

By: Rod Blaine

Rod Blaine — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:52:12 +0000

… Or else a female Pope enthroned at the top, with her husband The Fisherman kneeling before her?

By: Rod Blaine

Rod Blaine — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:46:55 +0000

Shouldn’t that Icelandic church have a Nazgul flying overhead…? It has the same Mordorish feel as Dulles Aiport.