Friday OT #1 - All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap

[JayV]

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

[Leidang]

"I had always wondered what it was like to die."

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

 

[cyclones500]

@Angie cited the best Vonnegut opener, so I’ll choose a runner-up:

“This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.” — Breakfast of Champions

 

[cyclones500]

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”
— "Cannery Row," John Steinbeck