[Article] a crack in the wall

[I'm reading *Moby-Dick* at the moment](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xavierroy_srividya-suryanarayanan-asked-if-we-can-do-share-7490785589437349888-Pdwq/), and I've been thinking about first lines. That's probably inevitable when you're reading a book that begins with ***Call me Ishmael***. It is such a strange thing to do with the beginning of a novel. Melville doesn't explain where we are or…