Novel openings with weather

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And Murphy, "The sun shone, having no alternative..."

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Subject: Novel openings with weather
Local Time: 28 mars 2017 8:24 AM
UTC Time: 28 mars 2017 06:24
From: lorentzen at hotmail.de
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>

"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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