Novel openings with weather

[Jochen Stremmel]

"The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel
it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor
light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorder. Trees restless,
temperatures falling, the whole northern religion of things coming to an
end."

Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections.

That's more like it. Thrown snowballs that carry hats into the wind and
star sides of cousins – I wouldn't call that opening with weather.

2017-03-28 8:24 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

>
> "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
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>  > ... 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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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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