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Subject:Re: Challenge to active-verb advocates From:Carma C Allen <ccallen -at- CCGATE -dot- DP -dot- BECKMAN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:50:58 -0800
How about:
"It was a dark and stormy night, and spectral feet kicked and scattered the
dead, rotting leaves littering the broken buckled concrete of the sidewalk,
which resembled grotesquely shaped phantom headstones in a long-neglected
graveyard."
No wait---that's a different contest.
Never mind.
Carma
ccallen -at- ccgate -dot- dp -dot- beckman -dot- com
