On 4/20/2014 10:03 PM, LizR wrote:
On 21 April 2014 16:27, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:“People are more unwilling to give up the word ‘God’ than to give up the idea for which the word has hitherto stood” --- Bertrand Russell :-) Indeed! Even physicists have been getting some mileage out of it ("The God Particle" etc).
Of course it's publishers, not authors, that chose titles. I remember a well known author telling how, once when he had fallen on hard times he wrote a romance to be published under a house nome d'plume. He called it "South Sea Interlude". The publisher said they should call it "Captive of Temptation". He objected that there was no captive in the story and it had nothing to do with temptation, so why should they call it "Captive of Temptation"? The publisher patiently explained that if they called it "South Sea Interlude" it would sell 5000 copies. If they called it "Captive of Temptation" it would sell 400,000 copies.
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