<div dir="ltr">Anyone else here has read Snowcrash?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/18 Markekohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com" target="_blank">markekohut@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Reading further, the protagonist uses his wife's epithet for him---Guido Cretini (!) and refers to his more-favored brother as Johnny Darling........then Johnny Sweetheart....then Johnny Beloved all<br>
As if cro his novel In the same chapter.<br>
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So I guess his words on Slothrop might be ironic and a self-parody.<br>
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Is irony the original slippery slope? ( I mean after that wet hillock in the Garden of Eden?)<br>
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On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Joe Allonby <<a href="mailto:joeallonby@gmail.com">joeallonby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hiro Protagonist.<br>
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Markekohut <<a href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">markekohut@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Yes. Lol....<br>
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>> Sent from my iPad<br>
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>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Doktor Kongo <<a href="mailto:congo.comma.md@gmail.com">congo.comma.md@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Haven't read 'Zoo Time' yet, but apparently its protagonist is named Guy<br>
>> Ableman?<br>
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>> Am 17.06.2013 14:03 schrieb "Markekohut" <<a href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">markekohut@yahoo.com</a>>:<br>
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>>> In Howard Jacobsen's ZOO TIME, a very funny satire of publishing and<br>
>>> writers there is this from the writer-narrator: " A rule of thumb when<br>
>>> choosing a name is that it should look arresting on the page. I'd never been<br>
>>> a Bill and Mary novelist [which might be a direct slam at a novel I know as<br>
>>> well as a general slam] . Life is banal enough, in my view, without a writer<br>
>>> replicating it. But you can also strive too hard. Beaufield Nubeem, for<br>
>>> example, or Tyrone Slothrop." .....<br>
>>> A bit on:<br>
>>> " in fact I only choose a name for its sound and appearance, not its<br>
>>> meaning. Only after the reviewers had been to work did I know why I'd called<br>
>>> X, X. And by that time it was too late to disabuse them."<br>
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>>> Earlier, he does a two page riff on how novelists today are doing<br>
>>> scientific research---climate scientists as protagonists, the barb [ against<br>
>>> McEwan among others] which I might send around re our science in fiction<br>
>>> thread if I can get it scanned. [ but it is not so relevant except to score<br>
>>> satirize trendiness in writers]<br>
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>>> Sent from my iPad<br>
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