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Best of worst writers dreams of car parts
By The Associated Press and Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO — A man who compared a woman's anatomy to a carburetor
won an annual contest that celebrates the worst writing in the English
language.
Dan McKay, a computer analyst at Microsoft Great Plains in Fargo,
N.D., bested thousands of entrants from North Pole, Alaska, to
Manchester, England, to triumph Wednesday in San Jose State
University's annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
He wrote: "As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual
Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly
functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the
intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps
of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described
in chapter seven of the shop manual."
The competition highlights literature of the most dubious sort: bad
sentences that take their inspiration from 19th-century novelist
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clifford"
began with the now-immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night."
"We want writers with a little talent, but no taste," San Jose State
English professor Scott Rice said. "And Dan's entry was just ludicrous."
Contest organizers said McKay, 43, was in China — "perhaps to escape
notoriety for his dubious literary achievement" — and could not be
reached for comment. He wins $250.
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