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   Brian M. Scott to djheydt@kithrup.com   
   Re: worst story title   
   15 Apr 15 11:06:09   
   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:48:32 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt   
    wrote in   
   in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > William Vetter   wrote:   
      
   >>What's the worst you can come up with?   
      
   > There were a whole raft of them back in the New Wave   
   > days. Frequently the title was also the last line of the   
   > story.  I nominate Ellison's "I See a Man Who is   
   > Standing on a Chair, and the Chair is Biting His Leg."   
      
   One may not care for such titles, but they *are* rather   
   memorable; this would seem to be a desirable attribute.   
      
   In a thoroughly unserious vein, may I suggest _Lessa of the   
   Two Weevils, Pernicious Werewoman_?   
      
   Brian   
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