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July 20, 2004
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction ContestThe Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is an annual contest celebrating bad opening lines to literature. The contest is named for Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton who opened his 1830 novel Paul Clifford with the words "It was a dark and stormy night..." imortalized by Snoopy. He is best known for his novel The Last Days of Pompeii. The 2004 overall winner is Dave Zobel of Manhattan Beach, CA with the following entry: She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon.Posted by Grace at July 20, 2004 04:24 PM |
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