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What's the better title: A Certain Star or The Star That Dartles?
(Title Character/protagonist is Kory aka Starfire.)

Date: 2006-09-20 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wachey.livejournal.com
The Star That Dartles

Date: 2006-09-20 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sister-wolf.livejournal.com
A Certain Star. (The other one distracts me by making me wonder what the heck a dartle is. Is it like a twinkle? Or more like a quick darting motion?)

Date: 2006-09-20 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frodobaggins252.livejournal.com
If you're specifically going to the reference to Robert Browning's
My Star"*, go with "The Star That Dartles" -- otherwise, I think you might confuse people with a term that's not in common usage. "A Certain Star" works nicely and can be a touchstone for the character as well as for a locale or situation.


*Just to avoid people needing to ask, here's the poem:

My Star by Robert Browning



All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

Date: 2006-09-21 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubynye.livejournal.com
*grin* Thank you for posting the poem, which has been one of my favorites all my life. Yeah, I was thinking of it here as my title source.

Date: 2006-09-20 05:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brownbetty
Dartles! Because… dartles!

Date: 2006-09-20 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petronelle.livejournal.com
Dartles confused me, and, in context, doesn't seem Koryesque.

Date: 2006-09-20 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katarik.livejournal.com
Dartles confuses me, and now that I've read the poem, I see why you picked it, but I would go with A Certain Star.

Also, Koryfic yay!

Date: 2006-09-20 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jubilancy.livejournal.com
A vote for the former.

Date: 2006-09-21 12:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vass
You should call it A Story About Kory Because She Is Awesome!

I prefer 'Dartles', but now [livejournal.com profile] frodobaggins252 explained where it's from, I'd like to put in a vote for 'Like The Angled Spar'.

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