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Old 07-12-2006, 12:03 PM   #1
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel was judged appalling enough to win the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize on Tuesday.

Retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel.

Guigli's winning entry read: "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."

Guigli's powers of invention and his determination to succeed -- he submitted 60 different entries -- also won him a "dishonorable mention" in the historical fiction category.



"My motivation for entering the contest was to find a constructive outlet for my dementia," Guigli quipped.

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest was started in 1982 by the English Department at San Jose State University to honor the Victorian novelist who opened his 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" with what were to become the immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night."




Wow, I had to read those lines like 6 times to figure out what it actually said. Good on them though.. takes a lot of work to write that badly I suppose
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Old 07-12-2006, 02:32 PM   #3
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Fear of winning is the only thing that prevents me from entering this contest! Thank you so much for posting the winning "sentence."

I used to enter the "Three Day Novel Contest," that came out of Canada in years past. (Write a novel, start to finish, in three days.) My first entry was when they still were able to handwrite comments on them. I got a "very well written...but..." *sigh* My characters were not believable because they were "too nice."
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Old 07-12-2006, 06:03 PM   #4
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that is very cool I must say and I too had to read it a couple of times....lol
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