COL49 - Chap 1: Who is Pierce Inverarity?

[Tore Rye Andersen]

> Those long, evocative, mind-expanding sentences, taking you in so many directions simultaneously, 
hit you from the first page of COL49 and just keep coming.
 
Agreed. BTW, it's interesting to notice how the opening line of Lot 49 corresponds closely to the 
opening lines of many of Pynchon's novels of stories, in that it begins by situating the story in 
time and/or space. Here are a couple of opening lines:
 
The Small Rain: "Outside [...]"
Low-lands: "At half past five in the afternoon [...]"
Entropy: "Downstairs [...]"
Under the Rose: "As the afternoon progressed [...]"
The Secret Integration: "Outside [...]"
V.: "Christmas Eve, 1955 [...]"
Lot 49: "One summer afternoon [...]"
Vineland: "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 [...]"
 
...just so we know where (and when) we are...
 
Pynchon's three big historical novels deviate from the pattern. It'll be interesting to see
where Inherent Vice'll fit in.
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