{"id":330,"date":"2008-08-14T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2008-08-14T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T23:59:22","slug":"famous-last-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/famous-last-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous last lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was asked this in chat today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(51) j (rh)<br \/>\nklaw-couple weeks ago you answered favorite literary first lines. how bout favorite last lines?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to say nothing came to mind right away, but I was reminded of it by the last line of my daughter&#8217;s new favorite movie, <i>Mary Poppins<\/i>, spoken by Bert: &#8220;Goodbye, Mary Poppins, don&#8217;t stay away too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, two of my nominees:<\/p>\n<p><i>Catch-22<\/i>: The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.<\/p>\n<p><i>1984<\/i>: He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. <i>(Yes, technically two lines.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll open the thread to everyone. Need help? I did, and found <a href=http:\/\/64.233.169.104\/search?q=cache:Jsfhkzeg_88J:americanbookreview.org\/PDF\/100_Best_Last_Lines_from_Novels.pdf+best+last+lines&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=2&#038;gl=us>this list of 100 &#8220;best&#8221; last lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was asked this in chat today: (51) j (rh) klaw-couple weeks ago you answered favorite literary first lines. how bout favorite last lines? I have to say nothing came to mind right away, but I was reminded of it by the last line of my daughter&#8217;s new favorite movie, Mary Poppins, spoken by Bert: &#8220;Goodbye, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[850],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-literature","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}