Looking for private-school reading lists, I’ve just come across a series of “Great First Lines” posted by St. Ann’s School, in Brooklyn. (I think one of Katharine’s close friends teaches there … and a friend of mine sent her son to the school … )
I love this one:
“All this happened more or less.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
This, too:
“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Book ends.
Catherine & Katharine 