HOW TO DOUBLE THE MEANING OF LIFE

About the Book

Feast on this twisted Word Play in Five Acts by a psycho linguist ‘wordo’ who offers
you a corny-copia of off the wall humor, featuring cartoons, gags, puns and other
word play. It’s a fey mix of dumb to sophisticated silliness and provocative satire
(environmental, political, social and religious) for thoughtful but twist-loving readers.
The acts encompass different styles of word play, each with a special twist or formula,
mostly organized dictionary-like within each chapter. Styles of humor include
daffynitions, confusions say, newords, sounds alike fun, spoonerisms, name droppings,
anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, rebuses, book titles, light verse, neo-truisms,
idiom abuse, half-asked questions, jokes and one-liners.

About the Author

Feast on this twisted Word Play in Five Acts by a psycho linguist ‘wordo’ who offers you a corny-copia of off the wall humor, featuring cartoons, gags, puns and other word play. It’s a fey mix of dumb to sophisticated silliness and provocative satire (environmental, political, social and religious) for thoughtful but twist-loving readers. The acts encompass different styles of word play, each with a special twist or formula, mostly organized dictionary-like within each chapter. Styles of humor include daffynitions, confusions say, newords, sounds alike fun, spoonerisms, name droppings, anagrams, palindromes, word ladders, rebuses, book titles, light verse, neo-truisms, idiom abuse, half-asked questions, jokes and one-liners. “Wonderful!” –Dave Morice, Kickshaws editor, poet and wordplay authority Anil is the assumed name of Chas. Melton, preacher turned biologist and serial killer (of words). Kentucky born, educated at Wake Forest (BS) and Johns Hopkins (PhD), held positions at Illinois (Microbiology), Pittsburgh (Biology) and Western Australia (Biochemistry), where he now resides. He retired early to pursue creative writing, spirituality and a more relaxed lifestyle and is especially wrapt in the artistic and humorous possibilities of word play, an early love. He has published a large collection of definitive, playful and literary anagrams, up/dn, and is a regular contributor to Word Ways, Journal of Recreational Linguistics.