March 17, 2011
"Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-​brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the a.m. heat: shattercane, lamb’s‑quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscadine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-​print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek."

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B Michael Tumblr: Exclusive to The Millions: The first lines of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.

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    The opening sentence
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    B Michael Tumblr: Exclusive...The Millions: The first lines
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    Spoilers, obviously. The novel’s project, I gather, is...boredom; to make art of boredom,...
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    At least it’s a …pretty long sentence.
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  11. monsterbeard said: All heads nodding indeed! But, the comments are mostly in response to the one guy (everyone puffing their feathers) who makes the fair observation that it is not a sentence at all. And isn’t that something. Tut tut!
  12. thefeeling posted this