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What other great opening lines do you know?.
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An evocative one which has stayed with me: “I had barely regained the ability to walk. I could not chase women, but could slowly make my way up the stairs to the whorehouse.”
I can’t remember where it’s from. Perhaps Bukowski or one of his contemporaries?