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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Well, as first sentences go, I'm sorry to say that that one doesn't have much of a "grip."  |
It has a certain amount of mystery to it. What is the reader being told to count? What will they see when they do? why is the book being introduced in such an enigmatic way or is just that, more prosaically, some-one has torn the reak first chapter out?