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Fantasy Literature

softhearted

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4. "It was a dark and stormy night"

Reply to petronius (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 07:24 AM

Feb 2013

is more of a meme than an actual example of bad writing IMHO.

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.

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