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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.                                                   )
(                 -- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton bad   )
(                 fiction contest.                              )
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