The open line of “One Hundred Years of Solitude"

 

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

 

“許多年之後，麵對行刑隊，奧雷良諾·布恩地亞上校將會回想起，他父親帶他去見識冰塊的那個遙遠的下午。

這是《百年孤獨》的開場白，也是這本書中最經典的一句話。

據說僅這句話曾經影響到了中國一代文學作家，讓莫言琢磨了30年。