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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-12-18 12:00 pm

I have wondered this for a while

What's the point of the subtitle "a novel"?

[identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Keep people mistaking it for a pile of beets and inadvertantly eating it.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You have no idea how often this has happened to me.

You have no idea how often it's been a better use for the novel than reading it, too.
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[personal profile] drcuriosity 2008-12-18 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Magnum Opus: A Novel. Please do not eat, or refrigerate again. I mean it.
rosefox: Green books on library shelves. (Default)

[personal profile] rosefox 2008-12-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
this is just to say
i have eaten the novel...
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[personal profile] drcuriosity 2008-12-18 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow I am not surprised that you're a bibliophage :-)

The sequel to that work would probably be: Stern Words: A Passive-Aggressive Note Left in the Kitchen