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Chapter titles

The title language is the book’s method in miniature.

Early chapters are objects and meals: Heaps, A Good Meal, Peace, Food, Tea. Then the swords get names: Enten vs. Cloud Gouger, True Realm, Roar. The auction speaks in architecture: Storehouse, Deal, Equal. The long book names people, then puts quotation marks on Strongest, Sword Master, Heroes. Part 2 opens on a rank and a place.

Collisions sit on title collisions. The table: chapter index. Essay: titles.