FN + LN

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:34 AM -0700 5/29/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>When I was a kid, the unalterably binomial _Charlie Brown_ struck me
>as weird. Now I'm used to it, but it's still peculiar.
>
>   ISTR that Tim O'Brien, in his fictions _Going After Cacciato_ and
>_The Things They Carried_, sometimes uses binomial names as some
>sort of mannerism.  Will check.
>
>   JL
>

Do I remember correctly (if vaguely) that one of Heller's characters
in _Catch 22_ always referred to on a FN + LN basis?  (Not to be
confused with LN-only Yossarian.)  If so, this would be a
continuation of the tradition, given other links between Catch-22 and
O'Brien's novels.

LH

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