What is the greatest opening sentence in literature?

A screaming comes across the sky.

>>7613325
>>7613325
My whole life I've been a fraud.

Gotta go with the classic
>My name's Ishmael.

>So there I was, chilling in the Hypersphere.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

>>7613335
isn't it "Call me Ishmael"?

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>>7613335

>A shout comes across the skies.

Gravity's Rainbow is the only classic.

>>7613378
Not as classic as
>I am seated surrounded by heads and bodies in a room.

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>>7613442
>2deep4u

"I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

>>7613335
And call me Ishmael.