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Saturday, 25 July 2015

When The Title Of A Work Is Also Stated In That Work


I don't know about you, but I really love it when the title of a work is also stated in that work.

Like, when you read a book called, I don't know, let's say it's called Well This Is Another Awful Mess Of Adjectives, and you'll open it up, and right there on page 233, someone will say 'well, George, this is another awful mess of adjectives', while looking in the book at an awful mess of adjectives that they've thoughtfully detected and which also happens to be described via an awful mess of adjectives. When that character says that, reader, I love it. 

When the title of a work is also stated in that work, my dearest reader, I don't mind telling you that it fair gives me the tingles. For example: if you happen to be watching, let's say it's a movie called Look At This Right Now Please Because I'd Really Like You To Look, and in that movie at about the 2-hour mark something absolutely look-worthy will happen, except that one or more of the characters in the movie won't be looking at whatever that happening is, the silly goose, and another character will have to turn around and say 'hey, Vincent, why don't you look at this right now please because I'd really like you to look'. When that character says that, you'll think 'Wow! Not only was that something that someone might say in that particular circumstance, but it's also the title of the movie that we're currently watching!' And when you think that, I'll gently reach over and squeeze your hand so you'll know that you're not alone in this amazing experience.  

I tell you, reader, when the title of a work is also stated in that work, it's about the greatest thing that can ever happen ever. Like, if you're watching a play called Oh Wow It's Happened Again And Now I Have To Jump Up And Down And Scream Excitedly In This Super Quiet Theatre, and you get to the tense third act and something that has previously happened to one of the characters in the play again occurs - and when that thing happens, and it also happens within a scene that happens to be set in a super-quiet theatre, and it happens in relation or proximity to a character who has a likelihood towards jumping up and down and perhaps also screaming excitedly, and that character says 'oh wow it's happened again and now I have to jump up and down and scream excitedly in this super quiet theatre': when that happens, dear reader, it makes my head explode. 

And when I then realise that I'm actually sitting in a super-quiet theatre myself, watching this play, and that the actor has actually really jumped up and down and screamed excitedly while saying the sentence that's also the title of the play, well, it makes me want to pick up the fleshy meat of my exploded head off the floor, piece it painstakingly back together, and then explode it again, because wow! In fact, what it really makes me want to do, when I go to see a play called Oh Wow It's Happened Again And Now I Have To Jump Up And Down And Scream Excitedly In This Super Quiet Theatre and the character in the play jumps up and down and screams excitedly while speaking the sentence 'oh wow it's happened again and now I have to jump up and down and scream excitedly in this super quiet theatre', what that really makes me want to do, dear reader, is say the words 'oh wow it's happened again and now I have to jump up and down and scream excitedly in this super quiet theatre', while also jumping up and down and screaming excitedly in this super quiet theatre. And when I realise that my words are also the words that the actor has just said in the play titled with the same words, and maybe, oh I don't know, maybe there was also a play within that play that the character was rehearsing which was also titled Oh Wow It's Happened Again And Now I Have To Jump Up And Down And Scream Excitedly In This Super Quiet Theatre, when that happens, well, it makes me wish I hadn't exploded my head twice already because I'm going to need to do it at least once more. 

And then, when my head has exploded for the third time, and you turn to my gushing headless trunk of a corpse, drenched in my spurting blood and bile, and you scream 'oh wow it's happened again and now I have to jump up and down and scream excitedly in this super quiet theatre', well, I don't mind telling you that you might cause me some pleasure.

Because, to be clear, when the title of a work is also stated in that work, I think it might be about the cleverest thing in the world.