> > >Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
> > >would like to play a game.  Lo these many years ago, when I
> > >was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
> > >altered titles.  The rules were simple:  change one word to
> > >a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
> > >meaning of the title.

> > >However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:

> > >The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.

> > >I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
> > >erudite group can come up with some new ones.

> > Tolkien's novel about a gossip, Lord of the Phone Calls

> > Asimov's baseball novel, Second Base

> > Le Guin's horror novel, The Sinister Darkness (OK, that one's a
> > stretch)

> Clarke's Indian romance novel, "Date with Rama."