十六部經典文學作品的第一句話(下篇)

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HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (1998), J.K. Rowling
''Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.''
哈利波特與魔法石
住在四號普里懷特街的杜斯利先生及夫人，非常驕傲地宣稱自己是十分正常的人。

HIGH-RISE (1977), J.G. Ballard
''Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.''
高層公寓
羅伯特萊恩博士坐在陽臺上吃熱狗的時候，想起三個月前在這棟公寓大樓裏發生的怪事。

MIDDLESEX (2002), Jeffrey Eugenides
''I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.''
中性
我出生過兩次：第一次，作爲一個女嬰，出生在意外晴朗沒有煙霧的底特律一月的一天，1960年；第二次，在密西根洲，婆透思基城的一個急診室裏，以一個少年男子的身份，1974年八月。

MOBY-DICK (1851), Herman Melville
''Call me Ishmael.''
白鯨
叫我伊斯梅爾

NEUROMANCER (1984), William Gibson
''The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.''
亡靈法師
港口上的天空顏色，就像是調不到臺的電視機屏幕。

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967), Gabriel García Márquez
''Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.''
百年孤獨
多年以後，奧雷連諾上校站在行刑隊面前，準會想起父親帶他去參觀冰塊的那個遙遠的下午。

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1885), by Mark Twain
''You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.''
哈克貝里·費恩歷險記
你要是沒讀過一本叫做《湯姆索亞歷險記》的書，你肯定不知道我是誰，不過這沒關係。