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Re: Botkin(e), Russian madman & nobody
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On 18/11/06 15:00, "Chaswe@AOL.COM" <Chaswe@AOL.COM> wrote:
> The long ancestry of the Nobody joke, from Homer to PF, via Carroll, can be
> filled in a little with these two instances:
>
>
> One also notes Captain Hawdon who hides under the nickname Nemo in VN¹s
> favourite Dickens¹ ** novel, Bleak House. Nemo (the Latin for nobody¹) crops
> up in many novels (notably Jules Verne¹s) and manga-comics, usually as a
> mysterious &/or evil character.
** My editor allows this genitive form over the ugly ³Dickens¹s!² The
Chicago Style guide permits a similar euphony for ³Jesus¹² and ³Moses¹.²
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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> The long ancestry of the Nobody joke, from Homer to PF, via Carroll, can be
> filled in a little with these two instances:
>
>
> One also notes Captain Hawdon who hides under the nickname Nemo in VN¹s
> favourite Dickens¹ ** novel, Bleak House. Nemo (the Latin for nobody¹) crops
> up in many novels (notably Jules Verne¹s) and manga-comics, usually as a
> mysterious &/or evil character.
** My editor allows this genitive form over the ugly ³Dickens¹s!² The
Chicago Style guide permits a similar euphony for ³Jesus¹² and ³Moses¹.²
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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