My earliest memory, possibly, is of a tire swing with water sloshing at the bottom of it. Or maybe it's from when we had three French-Canadian kids living next door to us, including one called Rene. But we pronounced his name "weenie," and it's that name I remember. (I would have been one or two.)
Some novels have good opening lines, like Gabriel Garcia-Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude: "As Colonel Aureliano Buendia faced the firing squad, he remembered the time his father had taken him to a neighbouring town to see ice..." And there's the dialogue at the start of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: "'Tom!' No answer. 'Tom!' No answer..." Malcolm Lowry submitted a short story to a Cambridge student magazine with this opening line: "The first murder I ever committed was in a windmill..."
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