A Mighty Sharp Sword

The Daily Writer · Nov 20, 2020 · 3m

If you’re a fan of the Peanuts comic strip, you may remember one of the ongoing storylines involving Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s loveable dog. Snoopy would be perched on top of his doghouse with a typewriter, trying to begin his novel. No matter what he was writing, he always used the opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Many readers of Peanuts thought Charles Schulz came up with this phrase since he created the comic strip. However, the phrase has actually been around for nearly two hundred years. It was first written by the English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1830 for one of his…