First line of Against the Day?

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Carvill John wrote:

>>> "Now haul up all the lines!"
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>> Sounds like Edwin Pynchon's airship casting off . . .
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> 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?



If you want to keep it more or less over the same place.



> 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!
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