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I just like books with post-colonic explanatory subtitles, but it looks like I'll be taken care of as well.

Yes, I made that word up.



You could call them prolapsed titles.


Interestingly enough, W.P. Montague's book The Way of Knowing, had a post-sesquicolonic explanatory subtitle:

The way of knowing;: Or, the methods of philosophy

at least in early editions, the sesquicolon seems to have been replaced by a mere comma in the latest reprintings.


"colons: why bother to come up with clear title when you can explain yourself"

From the same author as "How to become extremely successful at writing self-help books"




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