What’s your feeling on wordplay?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! You’ll seldom be offered a better excuse to lay down a horrible pun.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What’s your feeling on wordplay?
Station Eternity, by Mur Lafferty, is a book with two epilogues. Two! I had to look up the definition of epilogue to make sure I hadn’t had an errant understanding of epilogue in my mind for decades. I wasn’t wrong. An epilogue is a final act or event, or a section at a book’s end serving as a comment or conclusion to what has happened. Can you really have two conclusions? Perhaps the first epilogue could be thought of as a prologue to the epilogue. However, a prologue is traditionally at the beginning of the narrative, not at its conclusion. Since this is the first book in what Mur has dubbed “The Midsolar Murders” series, that first epilogue must be the true epilogue to Station Eternity, while the second epilogue is really the prologue to the second novel, Chaos Terminal. But if Mur includes another prologue in Chaos Terminal, I’d advise her to Stop Perpetually leading us down the Tumultuous Corridor of prologue-epilogue confusion. See what I did there? I love wordplay. If I can insert such terrible examples in my posts, I suppose Mur’s books can include all the –logues her little heart desires.