Saturday, January 13, 2007
Titles and Descriptions
Here are some books I haven't written yet:
HIGH DUDGEON--A novel in the style of Wodehouse.
PERSONS FROM PORLOCK--About people who make the main character forget what he's trying to do; the joke being that Coleridge never finished writing "Kubla-Kahn" because his butler came in as he was scribbling and told him that there were "persons from Porlock" at the door.
THE MATERIALIST--A confession.
SEPARATIST(S)--A play in several separate acts.
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE--A story to be written as if English were not my native tongue.
FOREIGN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE--A double-take.
THE FOREIGN-AMERICAN--A memoir.
SIBLING RIBALDRY--Brotherly wit.
AMERICA IS TURNING INTO CANADA--An objective report.
THE HORSEY SET--Auchincloss's world seen from far away.
DOMEDARY DOMECILES--A phrase I first read while dimly perceiving the above-mentioned world as I scanned the Social Register. A Domedary Domecile (and it may be "Dromedary Domecile," but I can't remember and am too lethargic to go downstairs and lift up my family's extremely bulky "Webster's 2nd") is a house-boat. I used to work at a place which bought used books from people who had copies of the Social Register. I have lived!
GOOD POVERTY--An appeal.
THE ROAD TO MACCA--A story I wrote one night and lost when I pressed "Done." I'll re-write it if I ever again get the inspiration.
HIGH DUDGEON--A novel in the style of Wodehouse.
PERSONS FROM PORLOCK--About people who make the main character forget what he's trying to do; the joke being that Coleridge never finished writing "Kubla-Kahn" because his butler came in as he was scribbling and told him that there were "persons from Porlock" at the door.
THE MATERIALIST--A confession.
SEPARATIST(S)--A play in several separate acts.
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE--A story to be written as if English were not my native tongue.
FOREIGN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE--A double-take.
THE FOREIGN-AMERICAN--A memoir.
SIBLING RIBALDRY--Brotherly wit.
AMERICA IS TURNING INTO CANADA--An objective report.
THE HORSEY SET--Auchincloss's world seen from far away.
DOMEDARY DOMECILES--A phrase I first read while dimly perceiving the above-mentioned world as I scanned the Social Register. A Domedary Domecile (and it may be "Dromedary Domecile," but I can't remember and am too lethargic to go downstairs and lift up my family's extremely bulky "Webster's 2nd") is a house-boat. I used to work at a place which bought used books from people who had copies of the Social Register. I have lived!
GOOD POVERTY--An appeal.
THE ROAD TO MACCA--A story I wrote one night and lost when I pressed "Done." I'll re-write it if I ever again get the inspiration.
# posted by Fredwemyss @ 2:06 AM 
