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[Murthy Yenamandra]

Dexter C. Palmer writes:
> Hmmm. Does the list's willingness to abbreviate Wallace's name (as we
> don't Gaddis's or DeLillo's, for example) indicate that he has
> accomplished his clandestine mission of ingratiating himself amongst us as
> a Pynchon wannabe, a half-assed doppelganger? Horrors! I agree with Max.
> This must be stopped.

Well, for one, the guy insists on using his middle name, which we all
know is just a pretension to grandiosity and an open invitation to
acronymize.  David Wallace doesn't work and who wants to say David
Foster Wallace all the time? So then why do we say TRP, even though he
never uses his middle name?  Probably 'cause otherwise we'd have to
shorten it to TP, which makes me think of Toilet Paper first (though
it's a nice enough Slothropian link to Shit, Money, and the Word).

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
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