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Friday, August 23, 2013

Incredible titles


Some of the current works of fiction have intriguing titles, a trend that I attribute to Milan Kundera's The Incredible Lightness of Being.

Some recent titles of novels:

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

A Marker To Measure Drift

In contrast, a title like The Flamethrowers, is concrete and un bewildering, and harks back to an age of innocence in book titles, when titles would signify something historical or allude to something that is factored into the plan of the book.

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