poll time in lala land ~

[lookingland]

i am retitling an old story that's been laying around forever (like they all have). the context is a marriage. it's pretty much a light-hearted romance with undercurrents of "if they are living happily ever after it's not without a lot of tears and suffering".

all of the choices come from literary quotes. the first is Goethe, the second is Bronte, and the third is Donne. I'm not posting the whole quotes because that doesn't really matter when one's just browsing the spines.

i'm having a devil of a time because all three are absolutely suitable.

your thoughts?

[Poll #914121]

Comments

[yozakura.livejournal.com]

I think "Silken Lines and Silver Hooks" is rather catchy. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

more and more i think it's obviously the "best" choice.

i agree!

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[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

I like the second one. :) It has a poetic quality to it. :) I admit the third one is catchy but the second has sappy. :) hehe :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i'm all for sappy and like the second one a lot (it's lyrical, which makes me lean toward it).

i think i might keep it as a subtitle or chapter title or something or other (or find another place to put it) because i do like it!

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[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Silken lines and silver hooks makes me think of webs and spiders and entrapped things, and caught things, and catchers....on the surface, it's all nice and shiny, but underneath, maybe not so much....

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it's certainly got a "lure" to it (ohhhhh was that a bad pun?)

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i think it's a keeper!

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

It hurtsss us, my precious. The pun, it HURTS us!

(Heee...I like puns. They've got sole...hee hee....)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh wow. you win.

hahahahahaha ~

[phedre-71.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'm the only one who likes Goethe??

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i love love love the quote that his phrase comes from and will definitely use it somewhere ~ maybe it's just not strong enough for a title?

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[phedre-71.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I think I've published works with weaker titles. Hehehe!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ i know i have! i am very weak on titles (that's why i have to pull them from quotes!)

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[ryan-howse.livejournal.com]

it's pretty much a light-hearted romance with undercurrents of "if they are living happily ever after it's not without a lot of tears and suffering".

On that basis alone, I'm going with the last one. They're all fine titles, but for this kind of story, that strikes me as being more thematically appropriate. It has a lyrical style to it, a sense of things coming together, but the 'hooks' adds in that subtle knowledge of suffering.

Also, Donne is cool.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

Donne is cool ~ !

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