My last post ended with a quotation from Lord Lytton. Like me, you're probably thinking 'who he?'.
Dictionaries of quotations often drop in names, assuming you know who they are. Now, of course, we have Wikipedia, and can find out in seconds (although don't tell my university colleagues who affect not to use it, at least when students are around).
If you're interested you could look him up yourself (he was a Victorian novelist and politician). But I thought I'd share one thing I learned there.
"Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first seven words of his novel Paul_Clifford:
'It was a dark and stormy night'".
