Here is the original Bulwer-Lytton sentence that inspired the annual award:
"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, Paul Clifford (1830)
for further info. on the annual contest, go to:
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Some of the recent Hermitish offerings deserve consideration for the Bulwer-Lytton
award for bad prose; but I have this pun to offer that should top them all...
The beginning of a noir horror novel set on a university campus:
"It was a stark and dormy night..."
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