autobiography

Ernest Hemingway. Green hills of Africa

First: We were sitting in the blind that Wanderobo hunters had built of twigs and branches at the edge of the salt-lick when we heard the motor-lorry coming.

Last: 'I'll write you a piece some time and put him in.'

Charles Bukowski. Ham On Rye

First: The first thing I remember is being under something.

Last: Then I turned around and walked out.

Henry Miller. Tropic of Capricorn

First: 0nce you have given up the ghost, everything
follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of
chaos.

Last: Tomorrow, tomorrow...

Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner

First: I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

Last: I ran.

Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

First: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Last: I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger...a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.