A year and a half ago, I challenged my reader to correctly explain the origin of my use of "In which..." for post titles.* That challenge has gone unanswered.
I'll up the ante. The person who correctly identifies the inspiration for those post titles will receive a real actual letter from me in which I ramble eloquently about something, as you occasionally see me do on this blog.
What? That's all I've got.
*I spelled this "tytles" and then "titlles." It's time for bed.
3 comments:
All the chapters in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh are start with "In Which...". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book))
This is also common in 19th century authors like Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
True, but not correct.
I always think of "Friends"
"The one where..." The one with..."
This has nothing to do with your titles. It's just what I'm thinking.
I want to google this but
a) I probably won't find the answer
b) that would be cheating
Someone win! I want to know!
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