From Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn （1884） 'You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.'The influence of this opening reverberatethroughout the 20th century, and nowhere more so than in J. D.Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: 'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousychildhood was like ... andall that David Copperfielkind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.'
出自马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》（1884年） “要是你没读过《汤姆·索亚历险记》，你就不会知道我，不过那也没关系。那本书是一位名叫马克·吐温的先生写的，他写的基本上是实情。”这段开场白影响深远，在整个20世纪的文坛余音不绝，而受其影响最深的莫过于J. D. 塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》：“如果你真想听我讲，你最想知道的大概是我在哪儿出生的、我那不堪的童年是什么样的……以及所有这类大卫·科波菲尔式的废话（编注：指讲自己童年的苦难），不过如果你想听实话，我可不想聊那些事。”
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