Re: GEN: Bulwer-Lytton contest

[William and Cynthia Carr <wccarr@IONET.NET>]

   Still, Madeleine L'Engle made "It was a dark and stormy night" work as an
opening sentence; she thus began _A Wrinkle in Time._  Was she winking at
the reader, do you suppose?
>
>Someone was asking about "It was a dark and stormy night..." often
>considered to be the worst opening sentence in the history of
>fiction.
>--
Cindy Carr, Librarian  Cleveland [Okla.] H.S.  www.cleveland.k12.ok.us
e-mail: (home)wccarr@ionet.net   (school)cleve24@edumaster.net
Those who do not go forward go backward.  (Classen H.S. motto: "Qui non
proficit, deficit.")

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