Questions of Grammar

Yesterdays post revealed a thorny dilemma: when you are referring to a scene in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, then do you say the final scene of Of Mice and Men (e.g. the final passage of War and Peace) or do you simply say the final scene Of Mice and Men . . . since Steinbeck has given us a free "of," I chose to be elegant and use it and not put another "of" in front of the title Of . . . and now I've got the word "of" stuck in my head and it's weird, because it's pronounced "uv" and if you say it enough times, it starts to lose its meaning and just sound like some sort of primitive exclamation: uv uv uv . . . and there's nothing on the internet to settle this pedantic absurdity so I will promise to never mention it again (unless someone actually knows the answer).

2 comments:

zman said...

The final scene from Of Mice and Men ...
The final scene in Of Mice and Men ...
The final scene to Of Mice and Men ...
The final scene for Of Mice and Men ...
Of Mice and Men's final scene ...

Catpell said...

all good options (aside from the whole shooting your best friend in the head thing)

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