In love with Wordy Harry...
"I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' -- and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?"
The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest winner was announced today, and the sentence above came in second. SECOND, I ask you! Ok, the winner was pretty bad but the Wordy Harry? Needed to win!
The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest winner was announced today, and the sentence above came in second. SECOND, I ask you! Ok, the winner was pretty bad but the Wordy Harry? Needed to win!
posted by Kenyanchick at 5:08 pm
2 Comments:
Oh my, Stephen Glass? That will require it's own blog. Him, Jayson Blair plus any Kenyan journalist you care to think of. Sigh. Boy do I have opinions...What do you think?
i honestlythink that prize is misnamed. I HAVE READ Bulwer-Lytton (call me madandcrazy!) and he is not THAT bad like the writers who win the prize named in his (dis)honor. i just have that gripe!
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