[CT] Fletch homage in Emerald Eyes

[Daniel Moran]

I actually have something to add to the gun thread, but it's going to have 
to wait until I have some time to write it.

Fletch is more fun anyway. Sorry to tell you the layer you've identified 
wasn't intentional (though I may very well have lifted it without meaning 
to; that happens.) In order, the writers I'm probably guiltiest of having 
lifted things from, intentionally or otherwise:

John D. MacDonald
Gregory McDonald
Larry Niven
Mary Stewart
Hunter S. Thompson

Confess, Fletch -- with Fletch and Flynn -- I re-read that recently for the 
first time in maybe 20 years and was startled at how much Inspector Francis 
Xavier Flynn resembled the mental image of Mohammed Vance that walks around 
in my head. Plainly that's not an accident.

Andre Norton -- I was browsing some of her books at the bookstore the other 
day and turns out her wise old race of lizard people are the "Zacathans" -- 
I stopped reading her when I was about 15 or so, but evidently something 
stuck there too, because "Zaradin" seems unlikely to be an accident under 
the circumstances. If I could go back and tell my 13-year old self to 
rename some of his creation, I would....


At 06:55 PM 7/11/2002 +0000, Archie Baal wrote:
>I am currently rereading _Emerald Eyes_, and ran across something that I 
>would never have noticed had I not just finished rereading Gregory 
>MacDonald's _Fletch_:
>
>journalist Gerry McCann is introduced to the Chandler car salesman, and 
>said salesman responds by telling him one of his articles about 
>SpeedFreaks was crap.  Gerry responds back that his editors damaged the 
>story, etc. etc.
>
>It's almost *verbatim* any of a number of exchanges to be found in 
>_Fletch_ between Fletch and other characters, and I'd never have noticed 
>it had I not read the books so close together.  I know, of course, that 
>DKM has acknowledged MacDonald as his dialogue guru, but I'd never spotted 
>the homage.
>
>The Continuing Time books have layers!  Layers I tell ye!
>
>Rdgs,
>AB
>
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