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thenewgreen · 3820 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can you come up with the first line of a novel/story?
Like this one, from one of the greatest books ever written?I am not a fan of those trite "let's introduce a character with a first name and it'll be a superfun mystery" who they are beginnings that are all over every single one of these threads whenever we do them
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude