1. “We were kids—but good kids. If I may say so myself.” Nescio (whose nom de plume means, “I don’t know”) finds himself in some knowledgeable company in this handsome series of posters put out by Asymptote Journal as a reward for donating to their Indiegogo campaign. asymptotejournal: Presenting the first four of eight in a range of Famous First Lines posters, designed especially by Nerys Hudson as rewards for contributors to Asymptote’s Indiegogo campaign. These posters feature famous first lines from Marcel Proust (tr. Lydia Davis), Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), Dante Alighieri, (tr. Henry Wadsworth Longellow), and Nescio (tr. Damion Searls). Like what you see? Donate to get your own copies here!

    “We were kids—but good kids. If I may say so myself.”

    Nescio (whose nom de plume means, “I don’t know”) finds himself in some knowledgeable company in this handsome series of posters put out by Asymptote Journal as a reward for donating to their Indiegogo campaign.

    asymptotejournal:

    Presenting the first four of eight in a range of Famous First Lines posters, designed especially by Nerys Hudson as rewards for contributors to Asymptote’s Indiegogo campaign. These posters feature famous first lines from Marcel Proust (tr. Lydia Davis), Roberto Bolaño (tr. Natasha Wimmer), Dante Alighieri, (tr. Henry Wadsworth Longellow), and Nescio (tr. Damion Searls).

    Like what you see? Donate to get your own copies here!

  2. “Looking back, Mrs. Fitzgibbons could not recall which of the major changes in her life had come about first, the discovery that she possessed a gift for persuasive speech, or the sudden quickening of her libido.”

    — Thanks to the San Francisco Gate for reminding us of the great opening line to Raymond Kennedy’s Ride a Cockhorse.

    (Source: sfgate.com)