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09-Jul-09In high school we used to read the books put together by the Bulwer-Lytton contest organizers, a yearly contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst book never written. Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote innumerable novels, none of which promise well from their first pages. The Last Days of Pompeii begins thus: “Ho, Diomed, well met! […]