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To: DScottD who wrote (60524)10/2/2001 5:18:44 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
And I misused two words in that post and am very proud of myself.
I had never heard of Bulwar Lytton and had to look him up.
My god! This contest would have been perfect for the writers of DAR yore! Think of what the inestimable Thomas C. White could have done, or what magnificent, pun-filled masterpiece would have been proffered by Lather. I am now checking out the rules...

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."

He writes just like a DARian.... and that is high praise indeed.