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Madeleine l'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE: STUDENTS WRITE ABOUT THE SAME OPENING SENTENCES |
| Author: Meg Edwards |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 270 Words, 1,429 Characters |
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It was a dark and stormy night ...
A familiar phrase to many of us. A phrase also used by many authors of the past and present. It is...
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...shioned. I mean, where is the excitement in "It was a dark and stormy night"? I'm sure that when it was first used that it was great, that it created a wonderful, spooky picture, and everybody loved it, but this is the 1990s and we need something that will actually scare the living daylights out of us. "It was a dark and stormy night" needs to be left alone before it gets absolutely worn out.
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