[New-Poetry] a question

[Jeff Newberry]

Please, Bob, do tell.  How exactly is Bret a horrible name?  Does it seem
contrived?  What's the issue?

Jeff Newberry

On Jan 3, 2008 8:58 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:

> Too many possibilities, all good in one way or another--and there's no
> way I can bring them all to mind.  But I always liked "James Bond" for a
> male.  On the other hand, who could be better named than Sherlock
> Holmes!?  Viola is a nice name for a female.
>
> Next game: the worst names for fictional characters.  Any of Henry
> James's males, I should think.  When someone mentioned Hemingway's Bret
> or Brett (seconded by another), I grimaced--that's close enough to the
> worst name I've heard for a female character, except some of the
> horribly sentimental ones I've now forgotten.
>
> --Bob
>
> Michael Snider wrote:
> > Travis McGee's friend Meyer for the male
> >
> > Miranda for the female
> >
> >
> > Weird how hard it was to decide!
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >
> >> Which is the name in literature you liked most (male and female)?
> >>
> >> Anny Ballardini
> >> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> >> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> >> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a
> >> dancing star!
> >> Friedrich Nietzsche
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