It has one of my favourite opening lines; "Sunday morning: waking, he felt long as a galaxy, and just lacked the will to get up, to unfurl the great sleepy length beneath the covers and go be disillusioned in the ministry by some servile, peace-of-mind peddling preacher."
I'm not sure why I like this line so much. Parts of it are simple, the use of 'he' for an unintroduced character both sticks us right in the middle of the story, and helps us to see from, Arthur's, the protagonist, point of view.
There is something else I like about this line. Possibly because it has the entire conflict of the story in this first sentence. The use of Galaxy to describe Arthur's early morning state, also links to the cosmological perspective which Arthur takes in his life. Through the story Arthur is focused on theology, but seems unrestrained when it comes it winding up his wife. This last bit is preconsideredIn this opening lines; he is avoiding is church, the practical, and intra-human application of his beliefs.
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