Bring On The Dragons!!

Some of my favorite posts on FB are the ones where you take a sentence or movie title or whatnot and either add or subtract a word and fill it in with something else to make it funny. Or add a word(s) or phrase. The most recent one was to take the opening line of a book and add “and then the dragons arrived.” I thought this was brilliant! Sadly, VERY FEW played along. So I thought I would play the game all by my ownself and phooey potatoes on the rest of ya! (BTW, ‘phooey potatoes’ was a phrase Lia used all the time when she was a toddler to express disgust or disappointment.) I had SO MUCH FUN doing this blog. I can say with a certain amount of pride that I’ve read all the books listed. I will site the source books for your edification…

“The Passionate Witch” by Thorne Smith...
From beyond the polished oaken door of the ladies' room in the offices of T. Wallace Wooly, Inc., came a slight and varied sound that lingered lonesomely in the sunny, empty rooms...and then the dragons arrived.

“Twenty Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne

The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…and then the dragons arrived.

“Dracula” by Bram Stoker

Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1^st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late…and then the dragons arrived.

“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do…and then the dragons arrived.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac…and then the dragons arrived.

“Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen

The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex…and then the dragons arrived.

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…and then the dragons arrived.

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…and then the dragons arrived.

“Lord of the Flies” by Willian Golding

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon…and then the dragons arrived.

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

It was a pleasure to burn…and then the dragons arrived.

“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

All this happened, more or less…and then the dragons arrived.

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with…and then the dragons arrived.