Quite unusual p reference

[Joe Allonby]

Hiro Protagonist.


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes. Lol....
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Doktor Kongo <congo.comma.md at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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