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One exception is a new John Locke, an American businessman who has taken to producing fiction at a rate that suggests he shares his namesake's passion for grappling with the blank sheet – although it must be admitted that this is about as far as the parallel stretches.
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His father, Nathan Sr., had a fatal heart attack when told of his namesake's death.
A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record Gary Fields 2011
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Although cynics might dub it a "ghost band," à la Glenn Miller, it's actually one of the most "alive" ensembles around today: these 15 players imbue their namesake's works with so much excitement, passion and spiritual energy, that their sets resemble a juju ritual in which they're trying to summon the Great Man back from the other side.
Mingus Haunts the City in February Will Friedwald 2012
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One exception is a new John Locke, an American businessman who has taken to producing fiction at a rate that suggests he shares his namesake's passion for grappling with the blank sheet – although it must be admitted that this is about as far as the parallel stretches.
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As such, he is in the line of academic frauds to be found in his namesake's fiction, but he doesn't really act as a focus of satiric attention on literary creation per se.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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As such, he is in the line of academic frauds to be found in his namesake's fiction, but he doesn't really act as a focus of satiric attention on literary creation per se.
October 2009 2009
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As such, he is in the line of academic frauds to be found in his namesake's fiction, but he doesn't really act as a focus of satiric attention on literary creation per se.
"So Set Against the Notion of Convention That I Should Attack It" 2009
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He is only 2, but this behavior pattern needs to stop -- somehow, some way -- so he doesn't follow my path, and his namesake's, too.
The mess he made: A life-long slob decides it's time to get organized 2010
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I named my only son after my Dad and in this way have kept his memory fully alive -- sharing his namesake's life story and watching with joy how similarities appear almost spontaneously as my son becomes a man himself.
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This seems to be my week for coming across complete facsimiles of my 19th-century namesake's books.
Another taste of that other Edward Willett ewillett 2008
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