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Anonymous No.24600085 >>24600245 >>24602006 >>24602077 >>24602078 >>24602474 >>24603471 >>24609243 >>24609884
It was a dark and stormy night.
Anonymous No.24600112
The message had been sent.
Anonymous No.24600245 >>24601801 >>24602013 >>24605657
>>24600085 (OP)
Why do pseuds hate this opening so much?
Anonymous No.24601801 >>24602075 >>24605887
>>24600245
asked the Chief Bum-Penetrator, his badge slick in the rain.
"I couldn't tell you, boss," replied his deputy. Deputy Bum-Penetrator Weinerface had all the stoic determination his career required, but unfortunately lacked some of the erotic mysticism that made a true Penetrator.
"They hate it," replied the Bum-Penetrator in response to his own begged-for opening, "because they need more. Reality isn't enough, they don't have the patience to sit through being introduced to a real human, who lives in the real world."
"Of course. Who has time, in this economy?" came the dull and anticipated response from the derriere deputy.
"Nobody has the time, Weiner. Nobody, but they make it anyway because they want to. That's what being human means. You make time you don't have. You eye the bums you shouldn't. You trace the sweat, trickling down their cheeks, as you tantalize yourself with thoughts of penetration - and perhaps-"
The sagely Penetrator was cut short by a whistling in the dark, accompanied by a clanging of metal and a scream that could be either despair or ecstasy, maybe even both but certainly not neither.
Anonymous No.24602006
>>24600085 (OP)
you called?
Anonymous No.24602013
It was a bright and cheerful morning.
>>24600245
It's cliche and melodramatic.
Anonymous No.24602048 >>24606765
It was a sunny day in Los Angeles, hot and bright, and I was in my office, playing Mahjong against myself and losing, when she walked in, 120 pounds of dynamite, a blonde with legs that began at her ankles and ended in trouble.
Anonymous No.24602055
In my younger and more vulnerable years I had my ass turned out by several men, presumably because i was a "twink" with luscious locks and supple thighs.
Anonymous No.24602063
Anonymous No.24602075
>>24601801
lol
Anonymous No.24602077 >>24603424
>>24600085 (OP)
Anonymous No.24602078 >>24602088 >>24602194 >>24602472
>>24600085 (OP)
has there ever been a night which wasn't dark?
Anonymous No.24602088
>>24602078
How little you know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun
Anonymous No.24602194
>>24602078
A night during a Thunderstorm.
Anonymous No.24602472
>>24602078
bro has never been outside during full moon
Anonymous No.24602474
>>24600085 (OP)
Shit that night was dark and storming fr
Anonymous No.24603317
It was like so, but wasn't.
Anonymous No.24603327
I don't even know what book started with: A dark and stormy night.
Anonymous No.24603424
>>24602077
ahem
Anonymous No.24603471
>>24600085 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVP3vaWdmk
Anonymous No.24604337
Now now now.
Anonymous No.24604351 >>24605630
>The call came from inside the house
Anonymous No.24605630
>>24604351
quite ironically there is just one movie that actually depicts the call being traced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbK2GfN-E18
Anonymous No.24605657 >>24605700
>>24600245
For starters, stormy nights are dark as a rule, you shouldn't need to be that.
Anonymous No.24605700 >>24605707
>>24605657
maybe the author was using "dark" as a synonym for "gloomy" or "menacing" and not for "obscure"
Anonymous No.24605703 >>24605718 >>24605772
What if we move the mentioning of London to the opening line?

>Never before had the citizens of London beheld a storm so unrelenting; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Original
>It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Anonymous No.24605707 >>24605796
>>24605700
So, a synonym for other things most people already connect to stormy nights? Also, that would not be a synonym.
Anonymous No.24605718
>>24605703
Nah that night was dark and stormy for real. Gargoyles were thrown from their crenelations and angels from their holdings on gang. Nah the rain came down with crazy force and only the wind checked it and that's on bd.
Anonymous No.24605772 >>24605774
>>24605703
>It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Kino!
Anonymous No.24605774
>>24605772
>(for it is in London that our scene lies)
C'mon
Anonymous No.24605796
>>24605707
go to sleep chang
Anonymous No.24605830
Well, i love a rainy night.
Anonymous No.24605885
Rainy Night
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Excellent for:
>lynch mobs
>reading
>writing
>digging
>lovers
>majic
>thieves
>big comfy parties

Disastrous for:
>shitting in the middle of the street
>lazy people who didn't repair their roof
>lazy people who delayed their field work
>travelling great distances
>big crime

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At night and in rain only.
Anonymous No.24605887
>>24601801
High praise for high prose. I salute you.
Anonymous No.24606765
>>24602048
"Good afternoon, Mr. Marlowe."
Anonymous No.24608975
If only I'd known...
Anonymous No.24609243
>>24600085 (OP)
It was the best of time, it was the worst of time.
Anonymous No.24609884
>>24600085 (OP)
>With a car you can go everywhere you want
Anonymous No.24611359
>nobody on /lit/ wants to go anywhere
kinda boring when all you faggots are like me