“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“No, they never expected or sensed the wishes of that omniscient narrator who, at times, wondered, accompanied by a glass of cabernet, about how his story should be constructed, how this story should develop.”
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