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The individual plaintiffs in the Washington case were listed in the appeals-court opinion as "Jane Roe; John Doe; James Poe; Harold Glucksberg, M.D." ("Glucksberg," of course, is not some ambitious new departure in the field of generic fictitious names, and there will not soon be a movie called Meet Harold Glucksberg . Glucksberg is just the real name of a doctor involved in the case.)
There is, for example, a piece on spoofs in which Rose cites several that are well known, omits others (like Poe's The Great Balloon Hoax), and includes at least one that is a satire, which is a different sort of animal: Gulliver's Travels is not, to my mind, a spoof.
And in his short tale, Lionizing , Edgar Allan Poe is quite candid in describing the reaction of one of his characters: “ ` Admirable!
McGrath earns extra plaudits for suppressing his usual fondness for the fantastic: Asylum "is closer to Hardy than Poe," says Phil Baker in the London Times . (See the Random House site for excerpts from Asylum .)
Poe, for example, used repetition in his poem The Bells to convey to the reader a sense of actually hearing the tolling of the bells, as though the sounds themselves were imprinted on the page.