#FirstSentences No. 8

A photograph of a vast open ocean and sky. The ocean takes up the bottom 2/3 of the frame and shifts from deep dark in the bottom left, through blue, to a bright white-pink near the horizon. The hazy sky is cloudy with shades of mauve and lavender. A small speck can be made out as paddleboarders in the middle of the ocean's expanse.
'Before the earth,

before the moon, before the stars,

before the sun,

before the sky, even before the sea,

there was only time and Ta'aroa.

Ta'aroa made Ta'aroa. Then he made an egg that could house him.'

First sentences of Richard Powers, Playground.

Started November 4.

Image: “Paddles boarders exploring an endless ocean” by Dirk Dallas, CC BY-NC 2.0.

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This post was first created on Nov 8, 2025.

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