question about book anatomy

Transentient · 17 Nov 2007, 18:29 · from 2007-November.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Transentient)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:29:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) question about book anatomy
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On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

> On 2007.11.17 09:04:50 -0500, Transentient <transentient at gmail.com>  
> scribbled 0 lines:
>> With Pirate Freedom, Wolfe has again placed a favorite quote of his
>> right at the beginning. After the acknowledgements, before the page
>> with the title on it.
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what this component of a book is called? Its  
>> not a
>> preface, its not a forward...is it an epigram? It's "a quote at the
>> beginning of a book..." and I know there is a more specific  
>> definition.
>>
>
> How about "epigraph"? <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Epigraph_%28literature%29 
> >

Sounds like it! That's funny, I thought this at first, but my brain  
scrambled the word to "epigram" which is not the same thing, so I  
looked that up and was like, darn, must be something different.

Anyway - very cute epigraph in Pirate Freedom.

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