20.12.12

Bulwer-Lytton Award

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is dedicated to finding the worst opening sentence to a novel.  The name of the contest is after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton who wrote the iconic opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night".
 

Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England, has earned the dubious honour of being selected as the 2012 winner with this:
"As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny demodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting."

Good grief! - Deb.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

What a mouth full!

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