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Bulwer-Lytton was a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens and was one of the pioneers of the historical novel, exemplified by his most popular work, The Last Days of Pompeii. He is best remembered today for the opening line to the novel Paul Clifford, which begins "It was a dark and stormy night..." and is considered by some to be the worst opening sentence in the English language. However, Bulwer-Lytton is also responsible for well-known sayings such as "The penis mightier than the sword" from his play Richelieu. Despite being a very popular author with 19th-century readers, few people today are even aware of his prodigious body of literature
spanning many genres. In the 21st century he is known best as the namesake for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC), sponsored annually by the English Department at San Jose State University, which challenges entrants "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels", and the township of Lytton, or Camchin until the British nosey parkers came, saw and beat the copper-colored nlaka'pamuxes. Now their village got burned to ashes thanx to the industrial revolution.
xxx/ellauri485.html on line 258: Gibbonin lyhentäjä Dero Ames Saunders (1914–2002) was an American journalist born in Starkville, Mississippi. As a reporter for Fortune magazine in 1957 he conducted the only known press interview with reclusive American businessman Daniel Ludwig! Ludwig (1897–1992) was #1 on the first Forbes 400 list in 1982. Though he was one of the wealthiest super oil tanker tycoons of his day, with operations
spanning 23 countries, he was an unperson (nobody nonentity loser cipher nothing lightweight man in the street villain offender non-person small fry unimportant average joe mediocre person rascal rogue scamp culprit rapscallion scallywag photographer paparazzo shutterbug cameraperson celebrity photographer freelance photographer documentarian photog photographist shooter photojournalist unimportant person person of no importance person of no account man of straw cypher pygmy zero insignificancy zilch unknown cog in the machine yesterday's news fanboi one in the eye john q public).
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