Title says it all, really…
If any old junk novel is allowed to start with a quote from Shakespeare, wouldn’t it be fair that actually good novels would be required to start with a paragraph from Tom Clancy describing an attack helicopter?
— Jay Pinkterton, probably, can’t really remember and his site has been down for yonks
By the way, Jay Pinkerton was one of the funniest internet writers I’ve ever read. Whatever happened to him? Here’s an archive.org link to his defunkt site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120417024947/http://www.jaypinkerton.com/thoughts.html
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