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Re: [OM] Re: [OT] Bulwer Lytton Awards

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: [OT] Bulwer Lytton Awards
From: "Michael Gardner" <mlgardner99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:03:02 -0400
| From long ago, the last line of a report on The Old Man and the Sea....
| "The old man dreamed of the loins on the beaches of Africa."
| JP

The only thing I remember from a long ago high school English class.... The
teacher was trying to teach us how*not* to write and read a line from a
published novel.  "She stood there, lips parted, her breasts heaving
alternately".

The mental picture still cracks me up 30+ years later.
Mike Gardner


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