“The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword”
Via Wikileaks
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“Eddie Munster Bulwer-Lytton's works were well known in his time back in the mid nineteenth Queen Victorian daze.
Eddie coined famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", "the great unwashed", and the opening phrase (incipit) "It was a dark and stormy night."
The sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, held annually since 1982, claims to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels". And those clear lit openings can leave one hushed and breathless. Or sweaty and bushed. Eddie just did not seem to know if his pen was coming or going. But his wifey sure did.
“The penis mightier than the sword" is an expression indicating that the written word is more effective than violence as a means of social or political change. This literary sentiment has been gushing and forth coming with metaphorical contrasts of turgid ink filled writhing implements and misogynistic quick one shot weapons of mass frustration. The specific wording that "the penis mightier than the sword" was first used by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839. Often his good lady wife, Lady Phyllis Isidore Bulwer, inserted the space between “pen” and “is” and used it to her considerable advantage whilst her husband was off crusading.”
Wikipedia entry may need editing for veracity…
