Bad writing contest (Next year's ...)

Eric Van Tassel (101233.342@compuserve.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:31:31 -0400

I can't pretend to have found this for myself: it was highlighted by
Matthew Sweet in his review (in the London Independent on Sunday, 4 April=

99) of Laura Beatty's biography "Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and
Morals". Non-British readers may need to be told that a pantechnicon is a=

large van, especially for moving furniture:

In the second half of the nineteenth century the English artistic
pantechnicon
was grinding through the gear shifts of aestheticism and pre-Raphaeliti=
sm
in
the search for a new language.

Cheers
Eric Van Tassel