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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: It, as a subject.
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- Date: 16 Oct 92 13:20:57 GMT
- References: <92287.091501KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET> <Bw2v5v.4tn@unx.sas.com> <Bw4745.BuH@unx.sas.com> <1992Oct15.181539.4496@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Oct15.181539.4496@srg.srg.af.mil>, dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552) writes:
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- |"It was a dark and stormy night..." (Some early Victorian novelist whose
- |name scrambled right out of my eye sockets.)
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- I believe this is the famed Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whose name now
- graces an annual contest for authors of deliberately supercharged
- melodrama. I can't confirm that he was Victorian, but he was British
- and certainly not modern.
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- I'll also repeat the opening line of one of my favorite novels, which
- I quoted earlier in the verb-to-be thread:
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- "It was a cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. . . ."
- (1984, for those unfortunates not familiar with the book.)
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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