Opening Lines ...

I love the opening few lines of Heather Mallick's latest column:

rabble columns: "In days of yore, you had to get out the scissors if you wanted to keep some piece of journalistic brilliance. You'd cut out the article and keep it in a file until it was nicely yellowed, and read it again in despair at how you still weren't able to nail a subject as well as the writer had. Then you'd buy a new filing cabinet."