Hotspur:
I suspect that like me, most authors spend an awful lot of time searching for suitable names to fit the characters in their stories. So maybe we should start a separate thread asking authors to give us the most appropriate name they found for a character.
Usually, I strive hard not to have to give my characters name, but occasionally that gets too complicated. Once, however, I went to the opposite extreme in a story entitled "Sachertorte", which, luckily for you, only exists in Norwegian. It tells the touching story of Annie Knabenprügel who grows up under terrible conditions in Miss Tanagain's orphanage and still manages to rise to Oberunterkonditormeisterin and later even to Unteroberkonditormeisterin in Georg Sacher's (originally Georg Sacher-Masoch) famous café in Vienna. The story also contains an alternative history of Vienna's intellectual circles in the 1930s (although the chronology is also at times somewhat alternative). Among the artistic and intellectual superstars that you meet are the conductor Herbert von Kardashian; philosophers Ludwig Wippgenstein and Tristram Truffle ("a turkey of noble descent" according to Wippgenstein); novelist Robert Müsli; the groundbreaking logician Kurt Prügel and his fiancee, cabaret singer and trippel spy Po-Po Versohlen; Prügel's archenemy, the French postlogician Antoine Fessée-Martinet; the chemist Madam Furie; the writer Stefan Svejks (of "Die Welt von Hintern"-fame); and, of course, the Irish poet W.B Yeast, one of the quickest rising stars on the literary horizon. The story is quite long, and if you prefer a shorter introduction, I recommend Hans-Georg Birkenrutes fourteen volume treatise "Eine kurze Geschichte der Flagellantismus".
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