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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
It was a dark and stormy post—
It’s award season and the results are finally in!
No, no, not those awards, which remind us that the people who create children’s books are artists as well as craftspeople.
No, I’m talking about the Bulwer-Lytton Awards for worst opening sentence. It is Edward George Bulwer-Lytton whose 1830 masterpiece Paul Clifford begins:
It was a dark and stormy [...]
