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Unread 01-08-2011, 03:30 AM
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There's quite a nice comp in The New Statesman this week. You submit the titles of books amended to make them sound more intellectual 'The Mind in the Willows' is the example given.

Where to and when? I didn't get time to find out. I'll look again, or one of you lefties out there who gets the NS can post that.
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1. Catch-π


2. Horton Auscultates a Who
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Think the Bismarck

The Iliac

The Great Brain Robbery

Frosty the Gnomon

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Sorry, I was playing the wrong game.

How about:

"Divine Comedy of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"

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Double Blind Ambition

A Light in the Attic Age

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Fusion

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