Clark Smith Comments Promoted

I know not everyone reads comments, and I particularly enjoyed two from my friend of a half-century, Clark Smith:

Apropos of Apostrophe Champion Dies last week: “For those of a grammarian bent, I recommend Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss and especially Between You and Me; Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris, twenty-year copy Editor of the New Yorker, particularly her last chapter on the pencil sharpener museum in Ohio.

Apropos of Pseudonyms: “I love Kurt Vonnegut's invented pseudonym for Theodore Sturgeon. Kilgore Trout.” I remember the character Kilgore Trout, didn’t know his derivation.

Comments

[Stephen Coquet]

Re: Kilgore Trout. At a party, Sturgeon is said to have commented to Vonnegut that someone should write a book by Kilgore Trout. Vonnegut is said to have replied, "Sure, but only if you do it." The result was Venus on the half-shell, by Kilgore Trout.