First line of Against the Day?

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 9:22 AM, John Carvill wrote:

> Ok now please don't kill me if this is total bs, but a friend of mine
> who works....shall we say, in a major US city..... has this friend
> and.... well, they got a glance at the first page of ATD, before it  
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> snapped away from them with a 'Jesus! You weren't meant to see that!'
> Snapped away too quickly for them to memorise much but they got the
> first sentence, or so it's claimed, a piece of dialogue:
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> "Now haul up all the lines!"


Sounds like Edwin Pynchon's airship casting off . . .

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