[New-Poetry] a question

[TheOldMole]

Well, it's  Brett. I know because I just used her as a character in my 
novel.

Jeff Newberry wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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