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/ The camel died quite suddenly on the    \
| second day, and Selena fretted sullenly |
| and, buffing her already impeccable     |
| nails -- not for the first time since   |
| the journey begain -- pondered snidely  |
| if this would dissolve into a vignette  |
| of minor inconveniences like all the    |
| other holidays spent with Basil.        |
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| -- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton |
\ bad fiction contest.                    /
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