lunes, 16 de marzo de 2015

IN WHICH THE FOLLOWING EVENTS HAPPEN

I just LOVE chapter titles that reveal most details of what will happen in the chapter.

For instance:

CHAPTER XXXIV
CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON THE SCENE; AND A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH HAPPENED TO OLIVER

Or:

V
TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.

Or:

X.
THE HURON IS SHUT UP IN THE BASTILLE WITH A JANSENIST.

Or:

Chapter XXIX
IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS

Or:

HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE.

Or:

Chapter xiii. — Containing the great address of the landlady, the great learning of a surgeon, and the solid skill in casuistry of the worthy lieutenant.

Or:

CHAPTER LV.

Of the wonderful things which the unparalleled Don Quixote declared he had seen in the deep cave of Montesinos, the greatness and impossibility of which make this adventure pass for apocryphal.

No surprise that my Baratheon Saga, which was modelled after old-time novels,
makes use of self-explanatory titles as well, for instance:
VI. In which a vicar, before leaving for his new parish, celebrates his wedding, his sister-in-law is ruthlessly bedded, and a sexy soothsayer makes her first appearance.

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