[DeTomaso] NPC: short automotive bad prose
Larry - Ohio Time
Larry at ohiotimecorp.com
Sat Jan 16 13:22:13 EST 2016
Surly not owners of old Oldsmobile's.
Larry (poetry) - Cleveland
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From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Charles
Engles
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 1:10 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: short automotive bad prose
Dear Forum,
I just found this on the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing
website for winners of the 2015 competition for the worst opening sentence
for a fictional novel. Warning: NPC
" Long overdue for a tune-up, the ancient and
dilapidated 1956 Oldsmobile -- with PowerGlide transmission and power
steering -- wheezed slowly into the gas station, the long, blue plumes of
exhaust looking like a crop duster full of illegal DDT spraying a field of
asphalt."
- Ed Buhrer, Louisa, VA
Warmest literary regards, Chuck Engles
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