'Twas a dark and stormy

[Jack Kessler <kessler@WELL.SF.CA.US>]

Exlibrans (sorry again, Tony),

The following is garnered, shamelessly and without permission, from a
posting just received from another e-conference (he cried, wringing his
guilt-stained digits):

        From law-lib@ucdavis.edu Fri May 20 09:57:46 1994
        From: MARY PERSYN <MPERSYN@EXODUS.VALPO.EDU>

        For those of you who have not yet seen the winner of the annual
        Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (for the worst opening sentence
        to an imaginary novel), it was written by Larry Brill of the
        NBC affiliate KXAN in Austin, TX.

        "As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window
        blinds, Roger stood over his victim with a smoking .45,
        surprised at the serenity that filled him after pumping six
        slugs into the bloodless tyrant that mocked him day after day,
        and then he shuffled out of the office with one last long look
        back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a
        silicon armadillo left to rot on the information highway."

        The Bulwer-Lytton award is given by the English Department at
        San Jose State University.

        I am particularly fond of the "silicon armadillo."

        Mary Persyn
        mpersyn@exodus.valpo.edu

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Jack Kessler

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