[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT:Fw: Tips on writing ... for English teachers, et al.]
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:15:06 -0700 (PDT)
Ditto
Cindy
--- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I love the Bulwer-Lytton contest! Thanks for
> sending it. Carrie
>
> Amy Goldring Tajalli
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: Marian
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:48 AM
> Subject: [Fwd: Tips on writing ... for English
> teachers, et al.]
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> teachers, et al.]
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Tips on writing ... for English teachers,
> et al.
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:15:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: OJardini@xxxxxxx
> To: OJardini@xxxxxxx
>
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> This year's 10 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest,
> aka "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" (run by the
> English Department of San Jose State University),
> wherein one writes only the first line of a bad
> novel:
>
> 10) "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he
> were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he
> would never hear the end of it."
>
> 9) "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."
>
> 8) "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have
> envied, a tanned, unblemished oval face framed with
> lustrous thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes
> fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that
> vied for competition, and a small straight nose,
> Marilee had a beauty that defied description."
>
> 7) "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on
> his mind as he crept along the East wall: 'Andre,
> creep ... Andre, creep ... Andre, creep.'"
>
> 6) "Stanislaus Smedley, a man always on the cutting
> edge of narcissism, was about to give his body and
> soul to a back alley sex-change surgeon to become
> the woman he loved."
>
> 5) "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it
> did not keep her from eeking out a living at a local
> pet store."
>
> 6) "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat
> detached, but then penguins often do."
>
> 7) "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with
> cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus
> lay dead on the hotel floor."
>
> 8) "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who
> didn't know the meaning of the word 'fear,' a man
> who could laugh in the face of danger and spit in
> the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal
> tendencies."
>
> AND THE WINNER IS...
> 1) "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside
> darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with
> sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window,
> revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat,
> crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the
> sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her,
> disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception,
> screaming madly, 'You lied!" Marian F. Zeitlin,
> Ph.D.
> CoDirecteur, ONG CRESP
> B.P. 8873,
> Dakar-Yoff, S�n�gal
> Tel : 221.820.92.00
> 221.638.62.51
> Fax: 221.820.65.49
>
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