[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence

  • From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:43:33 -0500

<lol> that sentence could have been written by a fourteen-year-old in fifteen 
minutes singing "sixteen candles" while juggling seventeen penguins humming the 
opening bars of the eighteen twelve overture.

Bob
- "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same
time."

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carrie Karnos 
  To: Bookshare Vol Group 
  Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:22 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence


  About halfway through this sentence, I start screaming, "Make it stop! Make 
it stop!" For me, this is THE worst opening line ever:


  She wasn't really my type, a hard-looking but untalented reporter from the 
local cat box liner, but the first second that the third-rate representative of 
the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth sense said 
seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 
so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics 
exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and, humming "The Twelfth of Never," I 
got lucky on Friday the thirteenth.

  --Wm. W. "Buddy" Ocheltree, Port Townsend, Washington (1993 Winner)
  See what I mean??

  Carrie


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