Yes, I’ll read the very, very short first chapter. I like to get people right into the action like a James Bond film. The cold open they call it. It’s an image first off of Timmy in a Cadillac like all kids’ books start in a Cadillac having crashed through somebody’s house. And he says — it’s titled A Prologue that Story-wise is Out of Order. He says it’s harder to drive a polar bear into somebody’s living room than you’d think.
You need a living room window that’s big enough to fit a car, you need a car that’s big enough to fit a polar bear, and you need a polar bear that’s big enough to not point out your errors like the fact that you’ve driven into the wrong house, which when it comes to cars and living rooms, is bad. I should back up. The story, not the car. So that’s a good example, by the way, of the rhythm I was talking about.
The opening sentences. A living room window that’s big enough to fit a car, a car that’s big enough to fit a polar bear, a polar bear that’s big enough — it just has a rhythm. I don’t know. I could be totally wrong.