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Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.
Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
#FirstSentences No. 2
From
Adania Shibli, The Book of Records
Nothing moved except the mirage.

She placed it on the shelf beside its sister, and pondered a thousand questions. Attend to what appears before you, she thought. That is what I must teach myself to do.
Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records, Chapter 3