"It was a dark and stormy night" has become part of the English language as the canonical phrase is used to start bad novels. Snoopy tends to begin with her novels, Neil Gaiman and Terry and also use it Good Omens. Apparently, the phrase has its origins in a novel called Paul Clifford written in the nineteenth century by Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (who remained unnamed). The principle of this novel more than justifies the fame of the sentence:
was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, interrupted when a violent gust of wind swept the streets (for it is in London that our scene takes place), making noise against the roof and fiercely agitating the little flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
There is even a "Contest Bulwer-Lytton Fiction", in which people try to write the worst opening sentences to imaginary novels. Rice Scoot contest entries collected in 1983 in a book called, of course, was a dark and stormy night . It seems that there are three published collections.
I was very much struck by this because normally I always start my stories in one night dark and stormy. xD And if I memory, I remember many books that I love to start something like this.
Is anyone safe from the topics?
I read the Saga of Discworld Terry Pratchett, and today I happened to ask if they had a library. The man has left me a minute and came back with a stack of books from the publisher DeBols! Illo who had the sea-green color back. O___o And even were all! Apparently, there are some books in this series have not been published in English.
came across this site so interesting references to Soul Music :
[url] http://www.dreamers.com/mundodisco/anot16.htm [/ url]. And then I read about the dark and stormy night, which has now befallen me.
The cover of Soul Music I read a review that said: "There is a genius of fantastic literature that is not even called Rowling or Tolkien." From what I've read and from what I've been told flees topics Pratchett laughing at them, and maybe that is the UK's best-selling author after (of course) of Rowling. Because
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