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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 1, 2011 22:22:24 GMT -5
I've always liked the name "Clarice" -- I think it has a nice ring to it, a nice feel on the tongue, plus there are so many valid nicknames! "Claire," "Clara," "Reese"... Plus, y'know, everyone will have fun saying hello to her.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 2, 2011 0:28:11 GMT -5
I really don't know where I first read the name, but I love Rosalyn as a character's name. Shakespeare's As You Like It? Haven't read that play, so probably not. |
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Post by conquistadori on Jun 2, 2011 0:51:30 GMT -5
Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout is BY FAR my favorite.
In second place comes Salinger's Glass family:
Franny, Zooey, Boo-boo, Buddy, and Seymour Glass in particular.
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Post by Olive on Jun 2, 2011 7:25:47 GMT -5
Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout is BY FAR my favorite. So I love Vonnegut to death, but I have this issue. I can't here someone talk about Kilgore without thinking of a really bad wanna-be beat poet... (There's a local "poet," who goes by the name T. K. Splake as a sort of play on K. Trout (a splake is a trout hybrid). He likes to think that he's the next Ginsberg, and every once in a while we get some giant package from him. We dread the Splake mail, because it's usually useless, and occasionally contains porn. But hey, it's... culturally/historically relevant? Or, at least, he thinks it is.) Sorry, thread derailment over :-D |
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Post by Silva on Jun 2, 2011 7:28:48 GMT -5
Whenever I think of Kilgore Trout I think of a giant walking fish. It's awkward when I'm reading the book and trying to imagine him as an actual person.
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Post by Marina on Jun 2, 2011 11:12:31 GMT -5
I've always liked the name "Clarice" -- I think it has a nice ring to it, a nice feel on the tongue, plus there are so many valid nicknames! "Claire," "Clara," "Reese"... Plus, y'know, everyone will have fun saying hello to her. That makes me think of Silence of the Lambs. Quid pro quo, Clarice. lol |
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Post by courtingblues on Jun 2, 2011 12:29:36 GMT -5
My iPod is called Watson, and when I get a kitten I plan on naming it either Moriarty or Mycroft.
... I'm a bit of a Holmes fan.
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 2, 2011 12:38:38 GMT -5
My iPod is called Watson, and when I get a kitten I plan on naming it either Moriarty or Mycroft. ... I'm a bit of a Holmes fan. I was told that naming my child Sherlock would get him beat up on the playground. I don't want kids, but I could see myself getting a cat and naming it Sherlock! I lovelovelove Holmes. |
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Post by AlexP on Jun 2, 2011 13:35:36 GMT -5
I love this thread because I have a bunch of names picked out for my future children because of books that I love.
First things first though, I came THIS close to naming my cat Vonnegut because of my love for Kurt Vonnegut but my mom vetoed that idea. I ended up going with Theo because of my love for both the Children of Men character and the female character in one of my favorite childhood books, Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson.
Anyway, my list of future children's names currently consists of Penelope after I was struck with the way the name rolls of the tongue while reading After Hamelin by Bill Richardson. The same thing happened with the name Henry after I read The Time Traveller's Wife. I've also really started to like the names Arthur and Rory after watching seasons 5 and 6 of Doctor Who...
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 15:17:35 GMT -5
My iPod is called Watson, and when I get a kitten I plan on naming it either Moriarty or Mycroft. ... I'm a bit of a Holmes fan. I was told that naming my child Sherlock would get him beat up on the playground. I don't want kids, but I could see myself getting a cat and naming it Sherlock! I lovelovelove Holmes. Holmes-fans: Tor recently launched an advice column for "Holmes" and "Watson" to answer readers' questions (and solve their mysteries). You may want to check it out: www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/holmes-a-watson-on-your-case |
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Post by courtingblues on Jun 2, 2011 15:33:24 GMT -5
That's brilliant! Thanks for the link! |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 15:46:55 GMT -5
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Post by sandiek on Jun 2, 2011 16:22:20 GMT -5
Every now and then, my head wants to run through names for future kids. I don't know why, because it's unlikely to happen, but whatever. Boys names have always been easy (even if my sons will wonder what the hell I was on when I named them). Girls on the other hand...I really don't like most of the names that are out there. Eventually I settled on girls names that would be considered old fashioned (Margaret Eleanor, for one). In fitting with the theme, though, is Rosalind. I don't have a particular attachment to the play or the character , but I just really like that name.
edit: dummy OT question!!! is it RosaLIND or LYN? I've seen both. I thought it was Rosalind in Romeo and Juliet, but someone else mentioned Rosalyn in As You Like It (which I haven't read yet). One? The Other? Both?
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 2, 2011 16:29:07 GMT -5
edit: dummy OT question!!! is it RosaLIND or LYN? I've seen both. I thought it was Rosalind in Romeo and Juliet, but someone else mentioned Rosalyn in As You Like It (which I haven't read yet). One? The Other? Both? Rosaline - Romeo and Juliet. Rosalind - As You Like It. So yeah, both. |
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 2, 2011 17:15:31 GMT -5
I always have been fond of Ophelia or Ezra (male).
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