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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…

A friend of mine recently pointed out what otherwise should have been obvious, but was nonetheless something I’d never really thought about before. The popular quotation, “it was a dark and stormy night” is, in itself, a very redundant clause. The phrase itself originated from novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The [...]
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