Saturday, July 15, 2006
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Among the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2006 Results are a couple of examples with a classical tinge. First prize in the historical fiction category went to Christopher Backeberg for this paragraph:
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While Hector and the heroes of Troy trembled behind the ramparts as cowboys below the walls raced up and down the beach, six-guns blazing and cries of "yee-hah!" filling the air, other cowboys across the sea were laboring gamely but in vain to throw a palisade around Wichita, Kansas, thereby adding veracity to the old homily of history that it is easier to cow a fortified city than to fortify a cow city.A dishonorable mention in the same category went to Hubert Kennedy, who contributed this:
If Gilbert had known then what he knew now, he would have seen that the dilemma facing him--to do a good deed for the wrong reason or to do a bad deed for the right reason--had long ago been shown to be two sides of the same coin by the philosopher known as Theragora of Crete even though he was not from Crete at all, but from Malta, which of course was not called Malta when Theragora was there.
