My forever favorite opening line to a novel remains “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold” How can yo

My forever favorite opening line to a novel remains “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold” How can you not want to keep reading after that? While at the same time it’s still at the beginning, not assaulting you with action, etc