Novel openings with weather

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps only a few geniuses, one of them Pynchon, could open a story,
*Entropy,* with an epigraph about weather---
Miller from Tropic of Cancer--check it out--- and end the story with
weather (or the lack of it, so to speak).

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "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
>>
>>
>>  > ... 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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