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4 Sep 2024 21:19:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Titles  
From: nemesis
Date: 5 Nov 2009 11:23:34
Message: <4af2fc06@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> Take a look at this:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ModestEnquiry.jpg
> 
> That's one hell of a long title, don't you think?
> 
> Today a title is usually something like "The Day After Tomorrow" or "For 
> Whom The Bell Tolls". Back then, it appears that the "title" was the 
> entire abstract! o_O

even more fun is the dedication section.  Like that of Cervantes to the 
King in the preface of Don Quixote.  Long, boring and baroque, full of 
praise to the monarch just to get it published.  Today it's something 
like:  "To Susan"

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