"Fixed hand is dead hand." —Musashi.
It goes into the seminal, and quite lengthy tome of Eiji Yoshikawa. No that said, its not an analysis that would take 69M hours, its merely a dissection of How to write First lines, and paragraphs, and pages, and chapters. Musashi does something interesting, as it adheres to Musashi lore, Eiji knows his stuff and hooks the reader from the second you pick up the book.
Podcast Notes:
-hyper crisp prose.
-rhtymic prose, almost iambic, Shakespearan
-very interesting tie-backs to Musashi lore. As if Eiji was providing fan-service to his reader from the get-go.
-Eiji was the precursor to the marketing guru/copywriter.
-The care for for the comma commands attention once again; the comma here is a symbol for Musashi’s unique and characteristic Ni-to-ryuu, two sword style..
-the first line encapsulates perfectly what the story is going to be all about; taut prose, rhytmic, bouncey, elegant, graceful, sleek, insightful, catering to Musashi lovers, full of suspense. Once of the best first lines ever created. This is how writing is done.
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