Quite unusual p reference

[Markekohut]

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 
As if cro his novel In the same chapter. 

So I guess his words on Slothrop might be ironic and a self-parody. 

Is irony the original slippery slope? ( I mean after that wet hillock in the Garden of Eden?) 
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On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiro Protagonist.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Yes. Lol....
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> Haven't read 'Zoo Time' yet, but apparently its protagonist is named Guy
>> Ableman?
>> 
>> 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]
>>> 
>>> 
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