Thursday, 6 March 2008 03:21 pm
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deckardcanineA couple respondents deduced one of the arguable flaws I saw yesterday in "Oh, Brothers, There Thou Art." The other is subtler.
The title it spoofs is O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- which begins with a one-letter word not immediately followed by a comma. You may disagree that this is a flaw, since it works on the syntactic and semantic levels, but I maintain that sticking closer to the original title would have had a greater effect.
Then again, the article title was corny in the first place, wasn't it?
The title it spoofs is O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- which begins with a one-letter word not immediately followed by a comma. You may disagree that this is a flaw, since it works on the syntactic and semantic levels, but I maintain that sticking closer to the original title would have had a greater effect.
Then again, the article title was corny in the first place, wasn't it?