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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."

-- from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodne

(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

Meekling Press · Gwenda, Rodney – Olivia CronkGwenda, Rodneyby Olivia Cronk Paperback132 pagesPublication date: 10/1/2024ISBN 978-1-950987-53-5$20 (Order Online) Olivia Cronk’s Gwenda, Rodney is an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry nov…

#firstlines are very important, of course, but what about last lines? Got any favourites, from your own work or others'?
This is my current WIP, a parting between two characters who've been through quite a lot together but now don't know if they'll ever see ecah other again. (To them, at this moment, it looks unlikely, but I'm the author and I'm reserving judgement.)

I have discovered the greatest first lines ever written, from the start of “The Journal of a Disappointed Man” by B.F. Cummings:

“January 3.

Am writing an essay on the life-history of insects and have abandoned the idea of writing on ‘How Cats Spend their Time’.”

#FirstLines What are your favorite first lines in a #novel ? " The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring…. I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria! ..
goodreads.com/book/show/13033. #TheAlexandriaQuartet by #LawrenceDurrell