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Friday, June 27, 2025

Edward Lear's Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

The Scroobious Pip went out one day...

...an' busted (oy! phoo!) its out-worn piece... 

How now will it ever replace that toupee and engender of humiliation surcease...?

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Underground Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Alice was beginning to get...

...to a nice big wan tinsel egg.

"That girl is REALLY starting to bug me," the largest of a nestful of pale (and, until but a moment before, pleasant) foil-festooned oval spheres was heard to remark.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's On Hudred Years of Solitude Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad...  ...he -- Chief Yananda as Mr. Sage, Sr. -- quietly farted...