Couldda been called...

Okay this blog is a bit derivative.  I will disclose my source. The late lamented Chritstopher Hitchens mentioned in an interview with our own beloved Jennifer Byrne that he and Salman Rushdie used to play a game of thinking up  names that authors might have given the first drafts of their  famous novels. Names that would probably have assured their obscurity. Hitchens said that is how he got the idea of calling his autobiography Hitch 22.  Here are a few titles we came up with Chez Alice:

Loves Labours Misplaced

1983

Black Horse

The Old Convenience Store

The Grapes of Rolf

The Lion, the Witch and the Washing Machine

Catcher in the Paspalum

The Ladies Room

Moderately Fortunate Jim

Room At the Back

They’re an Eccentric Group

Doctor Straightlove

A Tale of One City

Pride & Tolerance

The Old Man and the Pond

A Farwell to Legs

The Prince and the Pawpaw

Uncle Tom’s Condo

Rubbery Underarms

Puberty Reds

Summer of the First Doll

My Dull Career

Schindler’s Lifts

The Ordinary Pudding

The Slip Slop Slap

Eat, Pray, Defecate

The Ordinary Nearby Tree

The Well Known Five

The Seven Year Rash

All’s OK That Ends OK

Winnie the Turd

Hey, you 3 followers, any more not quite there yet names for manuscripts to suggest?