# Evan B. and Enan B. *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Jun 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *24 Jun 2000, 19:03* > Adam wrote: > Here's something on "The Haunted Boardinghouse," which I had intended to > post earlier but never got around to. In your excellent post on the > similarities between THB and LITTLE, BIG, there was one you missed, > iirc. The protagonist of THB is named Enan Bradford. Smoky Barnable's > real first name, with which he signs his letter to Santa, is Evan > ("Letters to Santa, II, 4, p. 166 of the Bantam trade paperback). So the > protagonists are Evan Barnable and Enan Bradford. Page 193 in a Bantam paperback. Hey, that =is= spooky! The full name on that page is "Evan S. Barnable": remind me, was his dad named Evan? Do we have evidence that his dad called him Smoky, and that Smoky is what the "S" stands for; or is Smoky just his hippie handle? (When I think of his family I just remember his five uncles and the way he and his dad would move from one uncle's house to the other . . . states beginning with the letter I, that whole thing.) =mantis= ---