If “To all outward appearances State Deputy Vyacheslav Osipov seemed to be in an agreeable mood, except for the fact that he was dead,” isn’t the first line of a great novel, I don’t know what is.
If “To all outward appearances State Deputy Vyacheslav Osipov seemed to be in an agreeable mood, except for the fact that he was dead,” isn’t the first line of a great novel, I don’t know what is.