W.P. competition

[Meg Larson]

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> From: Andre Buys & Nicole Slagter <A.Buys at net.HCC.nl>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: W.P. competition
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 6:23 AM

22) Gus McCrae: Larry McMurtry, _Lonesome Dove_
> 
>    Can't resist a competition.
>    
>    The following characters were featured in novels, stories or plays
>    published during the last 25 years. Name the title and author of
>    the work in which each appears.
>    
>    (1) Saleem Sinai: Salman Rushdie, _Midnight's Children_
>    (2) Case: William Gibson, _Neuromancer_
>    (3) T.S. Garp: John Irving, _The World According to Garp_
>    (4) Sophie Z.: William Styron, _Sophie's Choice_?
>    (5) Cesar Castillo: Oscar Hijuelos, _The Mambo Kings Play Songs of
>    Love_
>    (6) Tyrone Slothrop: Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_
>    (7) Coalhouse Walker: E.L. Doctorow, _Ragtime_
>    (8) Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza: ?
>    (9) Parlabane: ?
>    (10) Edmund Moorash: ?
>    (11) Fevvers: Angela Carter, _Nights at the Circus_
>    (12) Harry Angstrom: John Updike, _Rabbit_ tetralogy
>    (13) Milkman Dead: Toni Morrison, _Song of Solomon_
>    (14) Sherman McCoy: Tom Wolfe, _Bonfire of the Vanities_
>    (15) Ignatius Reilly: John Kennedy Toole, _The Confederacy of
>    Dunces_
>    (16) Wiley Silenowicz: ?
>    (17) Piere Brossard: ?
>    (18) Severian: ?
>    (19) Azaro: ?
>    (20) John Lempriere: Lawrence Norfolk, _L'Empriere's Dictionnary_
>    (21) Celie: Alice Walker, _The Color Purple_
>    (22) Gus McCrae: ?
>    (23) Tita de la Garza: ?
>    (24) Stevens: Kazuo Ishiguro, _The Remains of the Day_
>    (25) Tremonisha Smarts.: Ishmael Reed, _Reckless Eyeballing_
>    
>     Who can fill in the blanks? Maybe we can send in a joint entry.
>    
>    Nicole
>