Monday, November 07, 2011

Sometimes say sometimes again

Paul Keating's just released a book. I haven't read this book, but I know it has a title - I have read the title, at least. It's called

After Words

Not bad, as titles go I suppose - the book is supposed to be a collection of Keating's post-Prime Ministerial speeches. But it raises that age old problem (well, at least as age old as this post) - what happens if he ever wants to release a sequel? Is it going to be called 'After After Words'? Or 'An After Words' After Word' or 'A Word After After Words'? (And also: is it going to have an After After After Foreword and an After After Afterword?)

You see this problem happening over and over again with authors and book titles. Well I can only think of one example, that of Douglas Adams and his 'increasingly ridiculous' Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. So I suppose that hasn't quite reached an over yet. But still. Books. Words. Titles. It's important to think about this stuff, isn't it?

UPDATE! - Of course, another horrible possibility rears its head: what if Keating chose to call this hypothetical sequel: After Words: Electric Boogaloo?

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:12 pm

    And how could he title a prequel? 'Before After Words' or 'Fore Words: speeches while I was still Treasurer and assembling the numbers to oust Hawke'....

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  2. George Lucas's trick title seems a good one: 'The Phantom Menace'?

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  3. Anonymous12:56 am

    I was still laughing about the Electric Boogaloo.... I thought the Phantom Menace is Malcolm Turnbull...

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  4. In the Foreword to his Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida ruminates on the lie of the foreword, which is always written after the work it pretends to precede.

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