Finding a Title

The first thing, before these words, are the words above. Like light shining down through waves of clouds onto the matter of the earth and its below. I quite like how Mad Men episodes seem to be titled: a morsel of something that happens within that episode, or something umbrellic to wrap around key events. I'm oversimplifying it - each episode is called so for a different reason, and I can only speculate as to why.

There's one episode, "Wee Small Hours" of season three, in which those three words are never said, but the featured dramatic events occur during the early morning. There's another episode, from season two, called "The Mountain King" which features only briefly, for less than a minute, a boy playing "In the Hall of the Mountain King" on piano when Don enters the scene. There is probably significance in terms of suggesting that Don is the mountain king, and other connections I haven't thought of, but what I find intriguing is the possibility of calling a write by one moment, one inch of a thing happening that is important, or somehow insignificant on the initial apparence, but made important, or made to wonder at its importance, by its inclusion in the title.

It doesn't have to umbrella. It can just be quietly significant.

I kept to the idea that the title has to encompass the whole write, but I find the idea of titling a write with but a nail of what is in it, or a shadow of a nail that may not even be written about but cast anyway, if reading alertly, romantically appealing. 

That chosen thing ought to have some concrete weight, or some metaphysical grounding. It's gotta have written blood running through it, so it can head the write and the write can live.