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For fun: What's your best Bulwer-Lytton sentence?
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February 3rd, 2011
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
The English Department at San Jose State University has hosted a Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest every year since 1982.
The rules: single sentence, try to keep it under 50–60 words.
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