Re: GEN: Bulwer-Lytton contest

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

Actually, it is an excellent opening sentence, concisely setting the mood.
The problem is that the rest of that novel was awful.  It is only now
viewed as a bad opening sentence because it has been lampooned so often.

Regards,

Ken

At 08:49 PM 5/6/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Someone was asking about "It was a dark and stormy night..." often
>considered to be the worst opening sentence in the history of
>fiction.  You folks might be amused to know that there is a

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