>>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.

>>Rebecca

> 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)