Creeping Figs

[Chris Broderick]

What strikes me about this first sentence is that this
is the second book in a row by Pynchon that begins
with a character waking up, something that is
discouraged in writing workshops everywhere, for good
reasons.  Nevertheless, they both work.

Pirate's transition from sleep to waking is much more
abrupt than Zoyd's, and of course, more dream haunted.
 I too read that first sentence of VL as Zoyd drifting
through sunlight as he awoke.  A rather more pastoral
image than the immanent disasters of GR's opening
pages.  Which prefigures the rest of the book nicely.

-Chris

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