This sentence opens Lawerence Vambe’s classic An Ill-Fated People: Zimbabwe Before & After Rhodes (I discovered it late last week):

Almost as soon as you began to be able to absorb facts and to recognize human and animal forms you saw dogs everywhere.

This one is from a review of a new collection of recycled essays about Baudelaire by Benjamin (I discovered it this morning over here):

Now comes “The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire,” edited by Princeton University professor Michael Jennings, and based on the writings of Walter Benjamin, a long dead German genius.