Musings while accessioning books

[ladyofastolat]

How can a book be called "The untold story of..." something or other. You have written the book, Mr Author. It has been published and is sitting on my desk. The story is now told. When you first had the idea, you might have been entitled to call it an untold story, but once you'd finished writing it, the title was now a lie. Unless "telling," like

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

LOLOLOLOL!! Have I mentioned that I LOVE the way your mind works!! :D :D

Oh, and I'd love the read the 'Impractical Guide to...' books!! :D

EDIT: I suppose all those 'untold story...' books should be titled 'previously untold but now told story of...'!!

ha-hah!

[pigshitpoet]

good point

i know. it's like a fatal injury, how can you be dead and injured at the same time?

; P

[jane_somebody]

As a combination of the ideas of your untold story, numberless pages, and the perpetual cycle of receiving and surrending the unsung hero award, see also those pages in exam booklets that have a note at the bottom saying "this page is deliberately left blank"; they *really* should say "this page is deliberately left blank other than the words 'this page is deliberately left blank other than...'"

This is presumably the exam-booklet equivalent of the endless story I loved as a child: "It was a dark and stormy night and the captain said to the mate, 'Mate, tell us a yarn,' so the mate began: 'It was a dark and stormy night...'"