First Line of "A Wrinkle in Time"

"It was a dark and stormy night"
- Madeleine L'Engle, first paragraph of A Wrinkle in Time.

Kelly picked this one up this weekend, having somehow escaped her childhood without reading it. It's a fantastic little book, one that I credit a lot for firing up my pre-teen imagination.

Nowadays, tho, the first line kills me, because whenever I read of it I think of Snoopy. However, Wikipedia tells me that there's a bit more history to the line.