Beginning

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.  "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.

"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

-- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), British author, mathematician, and Anglican clergyman, writing under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)