From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 11:33:03 MDT
On 15 Aug 2002 at 11:53, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Here is the original Bulwer-Lytton sentence that inspired the annual
> award: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in
> torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a
> violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London
> that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely
> agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the
> darkness."
> --Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
>
> for further info. on the annual contest, go to:
> http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
>
> Some of the recent Hermitish offerings deserve consideration for the
> Bulwer-Lytton award for bad prose; but I have this pun to offer that
> should top them all...
>
> The beginning of a noir horror novel set on a university campus:
>
> "It was a stark and dormy night..."
Apparently an entrant beat me to this line.
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