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cybmole · 05-17-2015, 01:14 AM

epigraph for this post:
"QVANTI CANICVLA ILLA IN FENESTRA "- terry Pratchett ***

rhetorical Question 1
so you approve of having intro pages like:

i'd like to dedicate this to YYZ - you know who you are

troll text:
epigraphs usually occur at the front of the book. in bad/pretentious cases they are at the front of each chapter of the book; so are more annoying then acknowledgements, which , like movie credits, one can "walk out" on.

google tells me that epigraphs date back to the 1700s, and that there is a growing trend for USA authors, who never made it past grade school, to use top 40 lyrics in place of classical allusions..

For me that's as sensible as putting
" please allow me to introduce myself..." Jagger.Richards ,
at the front of a bible but there you go

*** http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-...companion.html

05-17-2015, 01:14 AM	#33
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	epigraph for this post: "QVANTI CANICVLA ILLA IN FENESTRA "- terry Pratchett *** rhetorical Question 1 so you approve of having intro pages like: i'd like to dedicate this to YYZ - you know who you are troll text: epigraphs usually occur at the front of the book. in bad/pretentious cases they are at the front of each chapter of the book; so are more annoying then acknowledgements, which , like movie credits, one can "walk out" on. google tells me that epigraphs date back to the 1700s, and that there is a growing trend for USA authors, who never made it past grade school, to use top 40 lyrics in place of classical allusions.. For me that's as sensible as putting " please allow me to introduce myself..." Jagger.Richards , at the front of a bible but there you go *** http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-...companion.html