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Friday, August 05, 2005

[nilesfunnies] Fw: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - 2005 Results

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - 2005 Results
a number of gentle smiles in this one
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

winner:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual
Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire,
highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently
on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands,
the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be
inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the
shop manual.

(Bulwer-Lytton is a contest for the worst opening sentence of a novel)