Quite unusual p reference

[Doktor Kongo]

I have. Found it an entertaining enough read, but didn't quite get why it's
so revered in SciFi circles.
Am 18.06.2013 15:27 schrieb "jochen stremmel" <jstremmel at gmail.com>:

> Anyone else here has read Snowcrash?
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> 2013/6/18 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>> 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
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>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hiro Protagonist.
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>> >
>> > 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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