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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] jeffr23.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"The Title I have chosen for this book is too short, and needs some ballast to weigh it down lest it float off into the Aether."

[identity profile] sesquipedeviant.livejournal.com 2008-12-19 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I couldn't have said it as well, but adding "A Novel" is a neat way of inserting a caesura.