THE OPENING SENTENCE (November 29, 2012)

Imagine a story breaking out in the media that my Residua website has been sold for a billion dollars and that the access to the site, previously free, now costs a dollar a pop. Everyone would want to see what prompted such an extravagance. What is a single dollar, anyway? With several billion users of the World Wide Web, the investment would pay off within a year. Unsure of what it was that fetched such an amazing price in the first place, intrepid readers would plough through my writings in search of the mystery. A gold rush of sorts would ensue. In just a few years, the intrepid investor would double the return on investment. There would be ruminations aplenty of what exactly happened. Bits and pieces of my wisdom would become as common as quotes from the bible, but the mystery would remain, thus feeding waves of renewed search of the site. Splendid. Minus the opening sentence, which is always the key to a literary exercise.