Have been grading exams this week... one of the least favorite parts of my job as a teacher.
Every now and then I remember the story about Tolkien coming up with the first line of The Hobbit, randomly, while he was grading exam papers and came upon a blank page, where he wrote, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." (And later had to find out what that was all about).
I haven't yet been driven by the tedium of my blue books to compose any brilliant first lines. But I'm still hoping.
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