names from novels that have bled over into real life

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:51:03 -0500, in rec.collecting.books, "Brian Thomas"
wrote:


What about bands?
Aerosmith being named after Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis is a myth.
Hot Water Music (Bukowski)
The Shipping News (Proulx)
Steely Dan (Burroughs' Naked Lunch)
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Deadeye Dick (Vonnegut)
Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan)
Mott the Hoople (Manus)
The Phantom Tollbooth
Bumblepuppy (Huxley's Brave New World)
The Doors (Huxley's Doors of Perception)
Augie March (Bellow)
Counting Crows (old English poem)
Creed (Stephen King's Pet Cemetery)
Supertramp (Davies)


Uriah Heep (Dickens)

What about bands?
Aerosmith being named after Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis is a myth.
Hot Water Music (Bukowski)
The Shipping News (Proulx)
Steely Dan (Burroughs' Naked Lunch)
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Deadeye Dick (Vonnegut)
Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan)
Mott the Hoople (Manus)
The Phantom Tollbooth
Bumblepuppy (Huxley's Brave New World)
The Doors (Huxley's Doors of Perception)
Augie March (Bellow)
Counting Crows (old English poem)
Creed (Stephen King's Pet Cemetery)
Supertramp (Davies) BRBR

And don't forget:

Uriah Heep (Dickens)


"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor
citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when
single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."

--Benjamin Franklin

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:51:03 UTC, "Brian Thomas"
wrote:

John A. Stovall pointed this out in the Pynchon discussion and I thought it
was interesting. Businesses that have taken their names from fiction. I know
there are tons of bookstores with names from novels, but what about non-book
companies?

I wonder if this will continue. If you look at the Lego sets you will
notice that all the Harry Potter characters names are registered
trademarks.

I don't think we'll be seeing "Harry and the Gryffindors" on any
marquees any time soon.

--
Mark Heaely
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com

Bands -
Soft Machine (Wm. Burroughs)
Doomster (Ross MacDonald)
Bob
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