הודות לג'ו שהעיר את תשומת לבי לכך בתגובות, הריני לשגר את כולכם לקרוא את תוצאות תחרות Bulwer-Lytton לשנת 2008. עוצר נשימה כמו ריחו של בית שחי באוטובוס עמוס בתל אביב בחודש אוגוסט וכמוהו, מעלה דמעות לעיניים.
Actually, the guys at that whatever university don't appear to have anything against Bulwer-Lytton, judging from this quote: 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," 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."
But, well, I will definitely not be the one to stand in the way of Quixotic attempts at anything.
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I thought last year's was better, but I'm too lazy to dig for it.
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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," 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."
But, well, I will definitely not be the one to stand in the way of Quixotic attempts at anything.
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