Challenge
Famous First Words: Write a great opening line to a novel.
THE NIGHT THE TRASH COMPACTOR BROKE - OPENING LINE
They held the world on their fingertips, the pale men. The continents observed, flattened and stretched on a sheet, all bloody with red ink. A cigarette burned atop the silver ash tray and died, its last sight the figures of five suited giants casting their shadows on the round table.
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