most beautiful novel opening

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ditto ;)

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> Datum: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:27:47 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> Von: kelber at mindspring.com
> An: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Betreff: Re: most beautiful novel opening

> I'm reading it now too!
> 
> Laura
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net>
> 
> >
> >I like the first paragraph of the book I'm reading right now:
> >
> >Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having
> little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on
> shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the
> world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the
> circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is
> a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
> pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral
> I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me,
> that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately
> stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I
> account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute
> for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself
> upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in
> this. If they but !
>  k!
> > new it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very
> nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. 
> 

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