Quite unusual p reference

[jochen stremmel]

Anyone else here has read Snowcrash?


2013/6/18 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

> 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?)
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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
> >>
> >> 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]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPad
>
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