Was amusing myself with my brother by mixing and matching the titles of famous works of literature. Here are some of the results. Warning: the only thing more irritating than a nerd is a nerd who is also a pompous ass.
1) The Divine Comedy of Errors
2) Fathers and Sons and Lovers
3) The Portrait of Dorian Gray as a Young Man
4) Huckleberry Finnegan's Wake
5) Of Mice and Human Bondage
6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Nothingness
7) The Death of Ivan Ilych, a Salesman
8) The Screwtape Letters to a Young Poet
9) Bleak House of Mirth
10) A Farewell to Arms and the Man
11) This Side of Paradise Lost
12) The Sentimental Education of Henry Adams
13) Women in Love in the Time of Cholera
14) Lie Down in Darkness at Noon
15) House Full of Don Quixote
16) The Decline and Fall of the House of Usher
17) The Telltale Heart of Darkness
18) The Light in August That Failed
19) Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas
20) The Last Tycoon of the Mohicans
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Realized in the place of #3, "Portrait of a Lady as a Young Man" would've been an improvement.
Amusing, I must say.
I have a long list of combinations like these that somebody gave me, only it's in Russian.
I'll have to check and see if any of them work in translation. A lot of them depend on peculiarly Russian ways of stringing together polysyllabic compounds.
Jeff- good to hear from you. How's NY?
It was good. I just got back, and I have a lot of pictures taken from the top of the Empire State Building, the interior of the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere.
I found my list of Russian combinations/puns (not book titles like yours, just familiar words and phrases). I translated/adapted as many as I could get to work in English. Here goes...
Infrared tape
Bitter tears of joy
Graph paper napkins
A Red Square root
A trade union of soviet socialist republics
Anemic vampires
A young couple about to tie the Gordian knot
Lilliputians suffering from gigantism
Kremlin brûlée
The Four Headless Horsemen of the Apocalypse
A ten-gallon hat trick
Tombstonehenge
No man is a deserted island
The orangutango
All Quiet on the Spaghetti-Western Front
Vermonte-Carlo
A chimpanzebra
A bibliophiling cabinet
I especially liked the Liliputian thing.
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