[lbo-talk] Harmless pastimes

Robert Wrubel bobwrubel at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 30 08:48:24 PDT 2007


Normblog recently ran a contest for "shortened book" titles. Here are some:

Gulliver's Day Out - Jonathan Swift

Jude the Obvious - Thomas Hardy

The Magic Molehill - Thomas Mann

Cold Comfort Allotment - Stella Gibbons

The Second Man - Graham Greene

My wife and I came up with some more:

We're Running Short on Weapons -- Ernest Hemingway

Do I Know You? -- Albert Camus

1984, Jan - March -- George Orwell

Of course, no one on this list would sink to such a trivial form of entertainment!

Bob



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