: Re: How do you connect a non sequitur hook to a novel? A pineapple is walking down a street, but here’s the kicker: he’s completely naked. That was a non sequitur hook I thought of.

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The narrator is clearly present in the sentence. The most important thing here is not the pineapple, but the narrator's desire not only to tell us about the pineapple, but to begin the story by telling us about the pineapple.

If there's a tie-in between that opening line and the rest of your novel, it's in your answers to questions like these:

What does the narrator's desire to utter the sentence tell us about the narrator?
What does the narrator's desire to start with that sentence tell us about the narrator?
What makes those aspects of the narrator so important to you as the author that you want to start your novel with that line?

If your answers to those questions don't give you a meaningful connection, then this line doesn't belong in your novel.

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