JF Ptak Science Books   Post 321

Among the Ash-Heaps and Millionaires (some of the attempts at a title for what became The Great Gatsby) of novel titles great and small, I offer the following modest list of attempts at titles and what became the real title of the book.  Can you guess if the proposed title (in parentheses) is real or just a bad attempt at humor? (Hint:  they’re all real–not much of a quiz, is it?)  This is a follow up on the Marianne Moore/Edsel/Standard Model Naming Things post from yesterday, though this more about re-naming–in most of these cases though it is more like anti-naming, as the proposals for some of these titles are just so painfully bad.  I think that we can all be thankful that the editors, or the author, finally made a more correct decision on the titling of the work at hand.  

(Naked Lust)
Naked Lunch

(Tomorrow is Another Day)
Gone with the Wind

(Army Post)
Reflections in a Golden Eye

(The High-Bouncing Lover)
The Great Gatsby

(The Exorcism)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

(Something that Happened)
Of Mice and Men

(The Iron-Bound Bucket)
Mr. Roberts

(The Drunkards)
Tender is the Night 

(The Education of a Personage)
This Side of  Paradise

(The Inside of His Head)
Death of a Salesman

(O Lost)
Look Homeward Angel (*Actually his bones are only about 1000 feet from we’re I’m writing)

(Catch-18)
Catch-22