Burrito Sentence Wins Bulwer-Lytton Prize
The winning sentence of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest went to Californian Jim Guigli for his purposeful mangling of a detective drama. The contest is run by San Jose University's English department in remembrance of the opening sentence of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel, Paul Clifford -- "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."
The prize is awarded to the "opening sentence" deemed most awful, in a variety of categories that include general, science fiction, detective and romance. Guigli won this year's general category for "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean."
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The prize is awarded to the "opening sentence" deemed most awful, in a variety of categories that include general, science fiction, detective and romance. Guigli won this year's general category for "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean."
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