ATD: first sentence WAS: Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[pynchonoid]

The first sentence may be the most important in any
novel, because if the reader doesn't finish it and
move on, no way she's reading the book.

Surely you don't mean to argue that there's no special
import to the first sentences of Pynchon's novels? 
When the opposite is so clearly the case?

Even if P decided to go against the grain and do the
flattest, most unallusive, most unpromising first
sentence, he'd still be working against the
expectations of the genre (novel), its readers, and
its writers, but that's obviously not what's going on
with the first sentences of his novels, which are
meaningful at many levels.


>So much for the great import of the
> > first line of all of Pynchon's novels


 
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