There is a recent trend (isn't there always?) to name actions and things for authors and characters. As reported in the NY Daily News and the Guardian UK
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/03/going-on-a-hemingway-the-urban-dictionary-history-of-western-literature
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/mar/13/urban-dictionary-redefines-literature-names
and cited from
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
This is not new (what the Dickens is?), but noticing it is. I'm partial to language and new references amuse me. The Urban Dictionary is one of those sites you can lose a day in. Go ahead, Joyce yourself.
MYSTERIOUS GARDEN
10 months ago
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I love the evolution of language. And I sadly fear that I did write a number of essays while doing a hemingway. Which would probably have been better without his input.
Thanks for the links - big smiles.
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