Quite unusual p reference

[Markekohut]

Yes. Lol....

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On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Doktor Kongo <congo.comma.md at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haven't read 'Zoo Time' yet, but apparently its protagonist is named Guy Ableman?
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> Am 17.06.2013 14:03 schrieb "Markekohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> >
> > In Howard Jacobsen's ZOO TIME, a very funny satire of publishing and writers there is this from the writer-narrator: "  A rule of thumb when choosing a name is that it should look arresting on the page. I'd never been a Bill and Mary novelist [which might be a direct slam at a novel I know as well as a general slam] . Life is banal enough, in my view, without a writer replicating it. But you can also strive too hard. Beaufield Nubeem, for example, or Tyrone Slothrop." .....
> > A bit on:
> > " in fact I only choose a name for its sound and appearance, not its meaning. Only after the reviewers had been to work did I know why I'd called X, X. And by that time it was too late to disabuse them."
> >
> > Earlier, he does a two page riff on how novelists today are doing scientific research---climate scientists as protagonists, the barb [ against McEwan among others] which I might send around re our science in fiction thread if I can get it scanned. [ but it is not so relevant except to score   satirize trendiness in writers]
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
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