| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2001 : 28 January 2001 |
If you are writing the great Armorican novel (it helps to live in Armorica), I can help with the most difficult step, choosing the title. Others must read your book to recognize its greatness, so your title should be conventional in form. Use one of these two templates.
1. Preposition the Noun of Noun. Examples:
Against the Fall of Night, by Arthur C. Clarke
Between the Toes of Angels
Into the Sea of Spumoni
2. The Metaphorical Noun of Noun. Examples:
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Numerically-Controlled Milling Machine of Purgatory
The Charing Cross Road of Albuquerque
give me a clue so sweet and true
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