[lit-ideas] "McEvoy" and McEvoy
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:59:41 EST
I wrote:
>>-- I add "and Popper" since possibly Popper commented on this, etc.
McEvoy commented:
>Would this be bait on this list if I was not on
>this list, as Berkeley et al might have asked?
Good question.
This was another bait, too -- below. I wonder if Maugham has a variation of
"McEvoy" in mind or is McEvoy the surname of a painter?
Cheers,
JL
----
From W. S. Maugham's Theatre (Heineman, 1937):
"The characters in this novel are imaginary. The author has tried to fit
them with names of his own inventions; if he has by chance hit on the name of
any living person he offers his apologies for an accident which, whatever care
is taken, must sometimes occur." (p. i).
...
"One day ... people would go to the National Portrait Gallery [in London]
and look at her portrait, the one McEvoy had painted, and sigh when they
thought
of the sad, romantic love-story of which she had been the heroine." (p.
227).
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