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The Millions - First Lines of The Pale King

There's a brief little article over at The Millions about The First Lines of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King:
 
The book’s lyrical opening sentence, printed below, may be familiar to Wallace completists. It opens a brief piece called “Peoria (4)” that appeared in the fall 2002 issue of Triquarterly. That piece, in its entirety makes up the opening sentences of The Pale King. (Recently, according to handful of blogs, the opening of The Pale King was read on a BBC radio program and some incomplete transcriptions of this appeared online.)
 
Continue reading over at The Millions.
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