[Best first page of a book, ever]
Wednesday, 23 August 2023 08:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23Rhodesia, 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 by mistake”.
“Okay”. As it is,there seems a good enough chance of being shot on purpose. “Okay, I won’t.”
-Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight.
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 by mistake”.
“Okay”. As it is,there seems a good enough chance of being shot on purpose. “Okay, I won’t.”
-Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight.
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