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_________________________________________ / The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is \ | held ever year at San Jose State Univ. | | by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in | | memory of Edward George Earle | | Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather | | prolific and popular (in his time) | | novelist. He is best known today for | | having written "The Last Days of | | Pompeii." | | | | Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel | | from the top of his doghouse, beginning | | "It was a dark and stormy night..." he | | is borrowing from Lord Bulwer-Lytton. | | This was the line that opened his | | novel, "Paul Clifford," written in | | 1830. The full line reveals why it is | | so bad: | | | | 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. / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (OO)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ :) ||----w | || || nltk score: 79 '(from -100..100) state: 'very good' eye: OO tongue: :)
Name: | Michael Moser | |
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