Life Is a Big Game of Calvinball: Work Email Edition

Me: Playing with [forthcoming catalog product]; just made my first booklist: Teen books featuring space squid as primary protagonists (or schools as primary settings)

Not Me: It's beautiful. I merely worry about the space squid.

Me: If you can find me a YA book featuring a space squid as primary protagonist, I will seriously consider changing the name.

Not Me: [Catalog link to The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror]

Me: I find neither mention of space squid (or terrestrial squid) nor a Young Adult designation at that link. ;-)

Not Me: BBYA are not necessarily catalogued YA, and Cthulhu is an extra-terrestrial tentacle monster, i.e. a space squid.

Me: Is Cthulhu the primary protagonist?

Not Me: Antagonist. Of sorts. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, doncha know.

Me: So then it has no bearing on my list. ;-D

Not Me: Are you implying that the antagonist of a book has no bearing on the subject matter?

Me: Absolutely not! Great antagonists are a treasure. But they have no bearing on my list. Just like I love a good intellectual sci fi, but I wouldn't put one on a list of light historical romances.