My favourite opening paragraph from a book.Ever*
Rhodesia,1976
Mum says "Don't come creeping into our room at night."
They sleep with loaded guns beside them on the bedside rugs.She says "Don't startle us when we're sleeping".
"Why not?"
"We might shoot you."
"Oh".
"By mistake".
"Okay".
As it is,there seems a good enough chance of getting shot on purpose."OK,I won't."
-Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight
*To give it context,it's a good summation of the situation in Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe),which is ongoing,actually. The situation in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was bad,thus the reason for the loaded guns. Rainbow's End is another really good book that takes place around the same time as Alexandra Fuller's book.
