Evan B. and Enan B.
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Jun 2000
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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=

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