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Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" was almost named Catch-18, until another book was published by blockbuster novelist, Leon Uris, entitled "Mila-18" also about WWII. The publishers insisted on changing the title number, and Catch-11 was suggested, but rejected because of the popular Ocean's 11. The number 22 was settled on b/c the publisher thought it had a funny ring to it.

C.S Lewis included three things in the title of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" as a nod to traditional fairy tale structure and the importance of the number three in folklore and myth. He began writing about a faun carrying parcels in the snow, and said that Aslan came bounding into the story because Lewis had been having recurrent dreams about lions at the time.

"Winnie-the-Pooh" was named after a swan in the park, whom Christopher Robin called "Pooh" (since if he didn't come when you called him, you could pretend to be saying "pooh" as if you hadn't wanted him anyway), and a bear in the London Zoo called "Winnipeg" (named by an American soldier after his hometown). Winnie-the-Pooh's true name is Edward Bear, and Pooh is just a nickname.

"Women have seldom been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart, but I could not look upon her perfect clear-cut face, with all the soft freshness of her delicate coloring, without realizing that no young man would cross her path unscathed." - Holmes