Podcast Notes:
-Why this is the greatest, first line in existence
-How to use poetry, free verse, and meter such as the iambic pentameter, championed by Shakespeare in your first sentence;
-what is an alexandrine; and how it’s the main go-to move of Lee Child, to create this luscious and gorgeous and elegant, singsong style of sentences. Which just thump and drone on and on, an on. From first line, till the very, very last;
-how this first line was so powerful, and memorable, that years after consuming this book, I remembered the, fully fleshed out and fully formed, as it apparated in my mind’s eye; while writing my first fiction novel, Ghosts of Wolves;
-how it was the inspiration for one of the most addictive lines in Ghosts of Wolves.
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