First line of Against the Day?

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Carvill John wrote:

> >>"Now haul up all the lines!"
> 
> >Sounds like Edwin Pynchon's airship casting off . . .
> 
> Yeah, I immediately thought of those balloonists mentioned in the blurb, 
> then I thought wait a minute does a balloon even have more than one line? 
> Probably just a ship, but - the thought stuck so now I imagine ATD beginning 
> with a balloon lifting off - or as Stencil might say, the balloon goes up!

	I immediately thought of lines of text...