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valdary:All Toby books (and in-universe short stories) have titles taken from the works of Shakespeare. There's a lot of Shakespeare out there! So...
To enter for an ARC of An Artificial Night, suggest a quote or quotes that would make a good title for a Toby story. Extra credit if they're quotes not everyone would know (for example, going with An Artificial Night from Romeo and Juliet, rather than something more familiar). Please include the surrounding text in your entry, as well as identifying the scene/sonnet/poem the quote comes from. Entries must be between three and five words.
Example:
Late Eclipses.
"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
No good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
Reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
Scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
Friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
Cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in
Palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son
And father..." —King Lear.
I'll select the winner through random drawing on Tuesday, June 29th. By entering, you grant permission for me to use your title if I think it's awesome, since Shakespeare is public domain and also, well, I might have issues round about book eleven, when everything has been suggested already.
Game on!
June 23 2010, 17:48:12 UTC 7 years ago
KING HENRY IV, PART 1
“Of my young Harry, O that it could be proved
That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged
In cradle-clothes our children they lay”
The Midnight Keeper
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
“There is an old tale that goes Herne the Hunter,
Sometimes a keeper here in Windsor forest,
Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns;”
A Braver Grave
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
“I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace.”
June 23 2010, 19:18:39 UTC 7 years ago
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