[HN Gopher] Lyttle Lytton Contest
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       Lyttle Lytton Contest
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-06-27 19:57 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | Nzen wrote:
       | tl;dr This points to the 2024 ranking of the _Lyttle Lytton_
       | contest, noting that the judge separated llm generated from human
       | written responses. The Lyttle Lytton contest imitates the
       | _Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest_ , but limits the entrants to 200
       | characters. The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a challenge to
       | write the worst first sentence for a novel. The judge felt the
       | latter tended toward run on sentences that tried to pack in lots
       | of context.
        
         | PeterCorless wrote:
         | Thanks! I've been a fan of the Bullwer-Lytton contest since the
         | 1980s. I did notice that some of the "one sentence" entries in
         | the Little Lytton contest did, in fact, comprise two sentences
         | separated by a dreaded period.
         | 
         | Heaven forfend!
        
       | curtisblaine wrote:
       | Kinda loosely related: I've always wanted to create a site that
       | shows the opening sentence of any book you can imagine, which
       | would be useful for people who don't know what to read and want
       | to get inspired. I'm quite sure it's entirely possible from a
       | legal point of view (fair use), but I have no idea how to find
       | the data.
        
         | nine_k wrote:
         | See also:
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_t...
        
       | PeterCorless wrote:
       | I presume this is related to the Bullwer Lytton Contest?
       | 
       | https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
        
       | chuckadams wrote:
       | My favorite:                   "Detective Joe found the body
       | slumped against the alley wall like a deflated bouncy castle, its
       | limp limbs a sad parody of childhood joy."
       | 
       | This one I think is too clever to be awful:
       | "She had a face like a chair, in all the best ways."
        
       | setgree wrote:
       | My all time favorite:
       | 
       | > Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which
       | cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did
       | everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it
       | mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten
       | minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by
       | choking ash - to pee.
        
         | Sniffnoy wrote:
         | I can't find that one under any of the years. Is that from the
         | Bulwer-Lytton contest rather than the Lyttle Lytton contest? It
         | sounds a bit long to be an entry in the latter.
        
           | PeterCorless wrote:
           | Definitely sounds like Bullwer-Lytton.
        
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