Life Imitates Art?

[estragon]

Saw the following:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/montreal-congregation-abuse-victims_n_998366.html

My story "Little Dicky" picked up this theme. Before it was a theme.

 

[estragon]

See my story "A New Birth of Freedom Ch 3".

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Murdo...1.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=

 

[cataleptik]

See my story "A New Birth of Freedom Ch 3".

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Murdo...1.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=8&asset=&ccode=

what does the name "estragon" mean to you? are you making a feminist reference? if so, you might want to not answer, and go on building your mystery.
blessed all hallows' eve to you.

 

[sr71plt]

what does the name "estragon" mean to you? are you making a feminist reference? if so, you might want to not answer, and go on building your mystery.
blessed all hallows' eve to you.

My theory is that his wife's name was Estra and she left him.

 

[PacoFear]

My theory is that his wife's name was Estra and she left him.

Yes, and I'm terrified of men named Paco.

 

[lovecraft68]

Then by that token Love is my craft.

I actually did go with this for the double entendre as much as in homage to HP.

 

[PennLady]

So I googled "estragon."

Wiki: Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estragon

Not saying this is how/why he picked the username, but hey, it sounds good.

 

[lovecraft68]

So I googled "estragon."

Wiki: Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estragon

Not saying this is how/why he picked the username, but hey, it sounds good.

Isn't it also the name of some kids book about a dragon?

 

[PennLady]

Isn't it also the name of some kids book about a dragon?

No, that's "Eragon," I believe.

 

[lovecraft68]

No, that's "Eragon," I believe.

Yes! That's it, it was bugging me, and I refuse to google everything like a lot of people do, I still try to rely on memory. Eragon, I think my daughter actually had a poster or something. Thanks, one less thing to cause the mind to spin later.

 

[PennLady]

Yes! That's it, it was bugging me, and I refuse to google everything like a lot of people do, I still try to rely on memory. Eragon, I think my daughter actually had a poster or something. Thanks, one less thing to cause the mind to spin later.

Well, "estragon" I had to search. Been way too long since French class. Eragon, however, I have heard of and I think I caught some of the movie at one point.

 

[estragon]

Estragon was one of the two leading characters in Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot). I remember seeing Zero Mostel, and many years later Nathan Lane, play that role. The play always fascinated me.