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Posted Do you guys get bleedover when you read about a fictional character with the same name or username as a real acquaintance? I'm reading Iain Banks's The Algebraist, where there's an alien species of contentious, verbose encyclopedists called the Dwellers. Neat, no? (I haven't read much Lovecraft) On the other hand, a long time ago on a board far far away, a guy going by "Roland" told me about Stephen King's The Last Gunslinger. When I read it, at times I had this image of a bagpipe-playing English major schlepping through the desert. This message has been edited. Last edited by: ZoneSeek, ~~~~ http://zoneseek.blogspot.com

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Posted Hide Post When i first joined the board, i thought GMZoe was named after Zoe from webcomic Sluggy Freelance, and thus was a girl *shrug* reading the Dweller in Darkness short story for the first time was weird and yeah, it bugs me when fictional characters have the same names as people i have an emotional attachment to... but i tend to get over it. reading Neuromancer was odd, since the only Molly i knew then was, largish and a huge anime fan once i realized she was Trinity from The Matrix it all worked out The Suburban Howl

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Posted Hide Post It's always somewhat odd to run into a character that shares my name - sometimes it gives me more attachement to the story, sometimes not. I usually don't find I have much direct' bleedover' though... ******* ~You're in the Moulin Rouge babe! Your next month's rent depends on it!~ ~We'd be so lost...if we weren't 'us'"~ ~Fictional History: The works of Shaughnessy E.R. Brookes ~ ~Imagination Press (un)Limited - unique gifts and apparel~

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ZoneSeek Member	Posted Hide Post Fictional and historical Nicks are always cool ~~~~ http://zoneseek.blogspot.com
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Ramblin' Phoenix is a loose cannon Member	Posted Hide Post *pictures Zoneseek as nearly headless* "You pass through the places, and the places they pass through you, but you carry 'em with you on the soles of your travelin' shoes." --The Be Good Tanyas, "The Littlest Birds" http://hatchingphoenix.livejournal.com www.xanga.com/hatching_phoenix
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