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Re: Re: Re: Alors ce BAC?	Sacré Moi	2001-07-23
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Name:	Schwicky
Date:	2001-07-21 14:27:42
Subject:	Re: Re: Alors ce BAC?
	Ahhhhg! Ca doit faire mal quand même.... C'est vrai que 9, ca fout tout en l'air.... C'était quoi le sujet? Ou du moins, tu as pris lequel? Toutes mes condoléances, si je puis dire ainsi. De toute façon, tu sais au plus profond de toi-même que tu es meilleur que moi ;-) Parce que tu as l'avantage de bosser au contraire de moi, qui préfère compiler un noyau qu'aprendre le cours de maths... Et en Deutsch, ça a donné quoi? Je sais, je suis curieux, mais je pense que c'est authorisé, non?

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The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."

Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:

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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