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"It was a dark and stormy night." A perfect opening line. Followed by a long paragraph beating the same topic to death. And who remembers the rest-of-the-story
by D-Coder 5y ago
"It was a dark and stormy night."
A perfect opening line. Followed by a long paragraph beating the same topic to death. And who remembers the rest-of-the-story.
- jfk13 5y agohttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654419.It_Was_a_Dark_and_Stormy_Night https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654419.It_Was_a_Dark_and... Unforgettable, brilliant. (Find the original large-format hardback, not the paperback re-issue that can't possibly recapture the exuberant pictures spread across the pages.) (I guess you may have been thinking of a different book...?)
- Narretz 5y agoHe's talking about the opening of Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/the-opening-sentences-of-paul-clifford.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/th... The opening line and following run-on sentence has acquired a bit of a cult following and inspired a contest for best worst fictional opening: https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ It's possible the author you linked was inspired by this as well.
- jfk13 5y ago> It's possible the author you linked was inspired by this as well. More than possible; I'm pretty sure it's deliberate. They like to take well-known, even clichéd, elements and re-imagine them in new and creative ways.