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On 12/6/25 1:15 PM, danny burstein wrote:

a bit OT, and who knows who's still here, but...

announced back in July, 2025, but I just caught the note now:

Bye bye to the Bulwer-Lytton contest

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

The best of all Bulwyr-Lytton contests is to read
Bulwyr-Lytton; so far I've read Paul Clifford,
Eugene Aram and A Strange Story. I had laugh out
moments with the latter two, such as Eugene Aram
defending himself in court by philosophically
attacking the very concept of circumstantial
evidence, and resting his case, or the otherwise
slog near the beginning of A Strange Story is a
description of British Class, where it is so
praiseworthy to be a lazy sod, which he reneges
on by working as a pharmacist, if I remember right.

The first sentence of Paul Clifford is a little
aukward with the parentheses, but what of it? The
funny thing about the book is it is filled with threats
about death but I only noticed one death, the magistrate
who died of a heart attack racing home with anxiety
when he was informed of the criminal nature of Paul
Clifford, who he thought was a friend, to see if he
stole anything of his or his friends. As it is
historic historical fiction, even though of the time
when judicial execution was a leading cause of death
because about everything was punished with it, I
would guess that what happened to the magistrate
wouldn't be illegal.


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