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.