Novel openings with weather

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of the 
Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off 
Delaware, --- (...)."

Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon


 > ... Elmore Leonard, who was a very successful novelist, had said, 
"Never open a book with weather." This is also advice found in a lot of 
writing guides ... <

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