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It was a dark and stormy night…

09-Jul-09

In high school we used to read the books put together by the Bulwer-Lytton contest organizers, a yearly contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst book never written.  Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote innumerable novels, none of which promise well from their first pages.  The Last Days of Pompeii begins thus: “Ho, Diomed, well met!  […]