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July 13, 2006, 20:41
Hic et ubique
Bulwer-Lytton Competition
Elsewhere, Beth says, "If one actually tried to write according to Strunk & White, one would sound like very BAD 18th century prose."

Speaking of bad prose ...
July 13, 2006, 20:43
Hic et ubique
quote:
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)
That sentence inspired "a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." From the home page you can get the 2006 winners. The grand prize went to this: