Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth
It was a dark and stormy night…
|
Don't mock it for its effectiveness. It's in The Three Musketeers. (
English,
French:
C’était une nuit orageuse et sombre)
And while I'm at it, here's the reflected house in The Fall of the House of Usher, where the protagonist hopes that the house would look less scary from a different perspective:
Quote:
|
It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodeled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.
|