From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: fw: metaphorically speaking
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:47:08 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Definitely Style Invitational. I recognize several of the usual losers.

Erica

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From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:07 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: fw: metaphorically speaking

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
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> Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays (or maybe not)
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I'm sure I've seen some of these (no prizes for guessing which ones) in
one of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contests
(http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/).  This is an annual contest to come up
with the first sentence of the Worst of All Possible Novels.

Some of them, I'd bounce off a wall as hard and as quickly as possible.
Some, I'd read just to see what could possibly follow that opening ....

"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)

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."