Grande começo

«The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under there, I liked being under there. It must have been in Germany. I must have been between one and two years old. It was in 1922. I felt good under the table. Nobody seemed to known that I was there. There was the sunlight upon the rug and on the legs of people. I liked the sunlight. The legs of the people were not interesting, not like the tablecloth wich hung down, not like the table leg, not like the sunlight.»

Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye, New York: Ecco, 2002, p. 9.