Retroview: The Wreck of "The River of Stars" -- Part Dieux

LAST WEEK, YOU MAY RECALL , TOF began his rumination on the recursively-titled The Wreck of The River of Stars.  Recusive, because there is a title (the ship's name) within the title (the book's name), throwing down the gauntlet for typographers everywhere.  How much and which portions are to be italicized?  Great minds must ponder this.

Meanwhile, we shall occupy ourselves otherwise. 

Previously, we discussed the title, which derived its ancestry from such as "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and the desire to write a story of a tragic shipwreck.  Since TOF writes in the genre SF, the ship wrecked would be ipso facto a space ship.  

We also discussed Where do you get your ideas, and saw the idea for The Wreck came from a confluence of several things:

The aforesaid desire to write of a tragic shipwreck.
The desire to use Mayer-Briggs personality classifications to define sixteen distinct characters, just to see if I could pull it off. 
The notion in William Trevor's The Boarding House of a landlord who deliberately sought out misfits to rent rooms to.
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