Restil
Jukt
Hiert
Ghort
Farthwork
Hard to believe nobody at the magazine noticed that these names all sound like they come from the mind of a 7th grader . . .
I wonder if his other articles were like that, too
Keely^
Good point!
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They're all German names. Its a little known fact, but Stephen Glass was a nazi.
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Wow, that's interesting. They all sounded like names out of Harry Potter. Please say more about the Nazi business. I would not be surprised. Stephen Glass has tried to justify anything and everything.
shareI disagree. It would've been too too easy and a red flag if the names were Anderson, Williams, Harris or Johnson. His names are real names all of us see every day. Genuine names.
shareExactly correct, my friend. If he had used names like "John Wilson" or "Robert Harris" or other basic generic names, the story would seems less credible as if he just thought it up. Less common names like Restil or Hiederdt make the story seem much more realistic and factual, because in Glass's mind, the reader would go "well, I thought the story was fake, but the names seem pretty realisitc so it must be real."
shareCome on now. Nobody here is talking about using names like Smith or Brown. There are plenty of other names that could have been used that would have sounded much more varied and realiistic and not so obviously conjured. The ones that were used, as different as he thought they all were, sounded like they came from the same place. And they did - his mind.
shareNames like Smith or Brown are much easier to make up. Who on earth would give a fictional character an overly complicated name when they don't have to? The answer is Glass, and so the names would seem more lifelike and not just pulled out of his ass. Clearly I'm right or else Glass in real life wouldn't have done it, which he did...
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