“Sometimes the sordidness of his present existence, not to mention the stifling, clammy heat of the apartment his finances had forced him to take, on the third floor of an ugly old house on Binghamton’s West Side—‘ the nice part of town,’ everybody said (God have mercy on those who had to live in the…”Tagged: Binghamton, first lines of books
“The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.”Tagged: First Line of Books, first lines of books, You Thought You Won But You Actually Lost
“I dreamed I awakened in a valley where no life stirred, no cry of a fox sparked up out of stillness; a night of ashes.”Tagged: first lines of books, Dreaming, Skies, Ashes, World of Ashes