/lit/ - Literature

Post the opening line of your masterpiece. Don't be harsh.
I'll start:
"I've never cared much for other people, and I'm pretty sure that they don't think I'm anything special either. Which of these feelings came first: I wouldn't tell you if I knew."

All these urbanized people posting pics of cafes and bordellos! This entry should be a welcome one.

Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi's cottage, a couple meters from his birthhouse, where he lived his final years until his death at age 38 to an unknown disease. He was only diagnosed with "chronic melancholy" at a mental institute and sent back home after he didn't recognize his brothers, speak or move anymore