For instance, I think Kate Masonic Boom is much like Kate Cutrer from
The Moviegoer (not exactly a canonical novel, but popular here it seems).
Providing just one example, and not even fleshing that one out, is kind of lame but I am lazy. Ned is not much like Ned Flanders. (Wait, the Simpsons isn't even literature!!)
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't have my copy of The Moviegoer on me, but there is this passage where Kate has (yet again -- or finally!) discovered the great elusive and incommunicable truth which has set her free. Binx listens with despair, know that Kate's moment on the mounaintop can only be follwed by a freefall into the black abyss.
This said, for those who haven't read the book, Kate is indeed a fascinating and sympathetic character and good-looking to boot.
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
There is a Ned Flanders somewhere in one of Truman Capote's literature, though Ned is not particularly like him, either. (There's also a Homer Simpson in Capote, as in Nathanael West, I think.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)
I think ILX works well as an online re-enactment of Donald Antrim's
The Hundred Brothers, where namesakes include (at least) Rob, Tom, Paul, Phil, William, Nick, Chris, Simon, Jeremy, Walter, Arthur, Patrick, Michael, Peter, Scott, Roger, Jason, Eli (who spends solitary wakeful evenings in the tower, filling notebooks with drawings--the artist's multiple renderings for a larger work?--portraying the faces of his brothers), Chuck (the prosecutor), Andrew (the civil rights activist), Spencer (the spook with known ties to the State Department), and Aaron (the horologist).
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
It’s the Capote one that gets me—what are the chances a writer would have both a Ned Flanders and a Homer Simpson traipse through his work? For quite a while I just assumed that’s where Groening was getting his names from, but apparently they’re all really named after streets in Portland.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I love Donald Antrim, esp. The Hundred Brothers.
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)