An example of nominative determinism:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=870138&cmd=showdetailview
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
well, now i know what those are it makes sense
first paperback eds of 'trawl' and 'albert angelo' have shown up where i work. can't really justify buying them. curious whether i still like johnson or not.
― thomp, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, yes you do. Because otherwise you would be wrong. So very very wrong.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
trawl has the most awful cover: a mixed-media picture of a mermaid, with a photo of a topless model for the top half and a painted tail. and then 'winner of the Somerset Maugham award'.
― thomp, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, yes, I have that one. It's not great.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Nominative determinism at work
― alimosina, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
do people still do that pomo kafka thing and name their characters n or d? kinda big in the 80's. just wondering.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
But those Waugh names from Sword of Honour aren't really wacky...
I'm thinking if you're a man called Evelyn, who marries a woman called Evelyn, your real life is so full of name-related unlikeliness that you can name your characters whatever you like.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Barf Latrigg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 12 March 2017 07:18 (seven years ago) link