Opening Line of the Week
These are the opening words of a short story that was originally published in a 1917 issue of Der Jude, a German-Jewish monthly magazine co-founded by Martin Buber in 1916. The narrator is a West African ape who was shot and captured by a German hunting expedition five years earlier. He was given the name Red Peter by his capt…
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