Beginnings

Literature and I are twins punched from the same ream of paper. I cannot live without it, and it taunts me.

I've been on a reading jag of children's literature, skimming through one teen drama after the next. Easy but fun reading. Highly enjoyable.

This week I picked up a more mature novel. The title compelled me: My Name is Will. A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare.

From the first page, I was not disappointed.

Though he didn't know it, the mushroom's cap was exactly the size and shape of Queen Elizabeth I's left tit. Willie also didn't know that the guy sitting up front, near the driver was a narc. And he also didn't know quiet how he -- a graduate student in literature, and according to his mother, the next William Shakespeare -- had ended up as a drug runner. But he did know that the woman sitting next to him was giving him a boner.

I'd say that's among the most classic first lines of a novel, right next to "Call me Ishmael."