Can you do the fandango?

Some clever first lines from novels excerpted from this 100 Best First Lines list.

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
—Samuel Beckett, Murphy

"Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.'"
—Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
—Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche