31.   Below, the very brief first chapter of the novel, followed by its operatic cousin.

32.   Bewildered teen-agers, ready to throw it all away, to slam their precious life-book shut before the end of its first innocent chapter.

33.   A home run there and the first chapter of the Mateo legend would have been written.

34.   A long and unflattering detour to America was inserted when sales of the first serial chapters proved sluggish.

35.   But be prepared to throw out that cup of cheap, light-roasted supermarket java before you finish the first chapter.

36.   But by the end of the first chapter, Sara is killed in a car accident on Long Island.

37.   But the Pathfinder mission remains a difficult first chapter for exopaleontology.

38.   But the first chapter of his crucial victory, in the south, appears to have unfolded smoothly, following an American script.

39.   But to accommodate the unprepared, the story to date always is sketched out in the first chapter.

40.   By midnight, he had written the first chapter.