On 9 Sep 2004 at 6:32, Kitsune Miko wrote:
> I wonder if he does bonsai!
> Kits
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> Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
> 2004 Results
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> An international literary parody contest, the
> competition honors the
> memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist
> Edward George Earl
> Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is
> childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit
> bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although
> best known for "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834),
> which has been made into a movie three times,
> originating the expression "the pen is mightier than
> the sword, "and phrases like "the great unwashed" and
> "the almighty dollar,"
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> Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830)
> with the immortal words that the "Peanuts" beagle
> Snoopy plagiarized for years, "It was a dark and
> stormy night."
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> Winner: Fiction for the Erudite
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> Clementine sat in the shade of a beech tree, of the
> family Fagaceae,
> the leaves of which were more or less ovate, being
> perhaps not quite as
> pointed as those of the North American, grandifolia
> species of the Fagus genus that are the color of a
> swimming pool that had been left too long without
> chlorine, but neither were they like those of Fagus
> sylvatica var. purpurea that are the color of dried
> burgundy stains on cream linen.
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> Geoff Beech
> Cochabamba
> Bolivia
I used to have the contest pages bookmarked, but they went with
some older computer. But Google for "Bulwer-Lytton" and you
will find some of the funniest reading around.
Jim Lewis -
jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - One of the
USA's better-known politicians is an unknowing natural at B-L
language. ;-)
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