#firstlines — Public Fediverse posts
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"The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it."
Opening paragraph of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
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"That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."
-- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk
https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)