Noematics 101, an inquiry into writing as phenomenology

I wrote a dialog a few years ago with the thesis that if one were to read just one book, a novel, from that book, upon close and global analyses, you would find enough material to think about and concern you for the rest of your life. I used one book as my example, a somewhat controversial book. The name of the book doesn't matter, or shouldn't, and the first line wouldn't matter either. Consider a most famous line from an American novel, "Call me Ishmael." Isn't there a world in a grain of sand in such a short sentence? Not long enough? Try this one: "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die." Of course, it would be nice to consider more, such as "'Hoji! Hoji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly.'" More than meets the eye, as the saying goes. But I contend the length and more sentences around the first one not necessary. The one, the part refl...