tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post4249064140896207430..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Apparently I can …Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-61074996559406441962013-03-27T10:13:04.595-04:002013-03-27T10:13:04.595-04:00I don't think Nige and I are all that far apar...I don't think Nige and I are all that far apart, since my point (which I could have made clearer) was that I could well understand how Bulwer-Lytton's contemporaries might find him appealing in a way readers no longer do. I still don't think that the notorious sentence, while certainly pedestrian, is so notably awful. Perhaps there should be a contest in which people re-write the sentence, turning it into what they would prefer (without, of course, entirely discarding its Victorian inflection).Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-49691092287540457552013-03-27T08:11:32.045-04:002013-03-27T08:11:32.045-04:00Nige: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Peerless Unreadability...Nige: <em>Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Peerless Unreadability</em>:<br /><br /><a href="http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/03/edward-bulwer-lytton-peerless-unreadability/" rel="nofollow">http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/03/edward-bulwer-lytton-peerless-unreadability/</a>Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-73836728134360171442013-03-27T00:06:14.555-04:002013-03-27T00:06:14.555-04:00Dickens v. Bulwer-Lytton?
http://www.complete-rev...<em>Dickens v. Bulwer-Lytton?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201303c.htm#go5" rel="nofollow">http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201303c.htm#go5</a>Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.com