I have flipped through books,
reading hundreds of opening and closing lines,
across ages, across cultures, across aesthetic schools,
and I have discovered that first lines are
remarkably similar, even repeated,
and that last lines are remarkably similar, even repeated.

我翻阅了各类书籍，
阅读了数百个开篇和结尾的句子，
跨时代、跨文化、跨美学流派，
我发现所有首句都十分相似，甚至重复，
尾句也十分相似，甚至重复。