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D.F. Manno  
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 More options Jul 5, 4:21 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@mail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:21:55 -0400
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 4:21 am
Subject: Re: Changing titles
In article <s25t64ldn61n6j43vmtn5kprt5gjabe...@4ax.com>,
 Rich Horton <rrhor...@prodigy.net> wrote:

> Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> >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."

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D.F. Manno | dfma...@mail.com
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness. (John Kenneth Galbraith)


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